lion (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: machines and manufactures 34%, food and beverages 22%,
petroleum products 14%, chemicals 10%, fats and oils 9%
partners: US 51%, Europe 16%, Latin America 18% (1993)

External debt: $871 million (September 1994)

Industrial production: growth rate -2% (1991 est.); accounts for 15%
of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 150,000 kW
production: 590 million kWh
consumption per capita: 86 kWh (1993)

Industries: sugar refining, textiles, flour milling, cement
manufacturing, tourism, light assembly industries based on imported
parts

Agriculture: accounts for 28% of GDP and employs two-thirds of work
force; mostly small-scale subsistence farms; commercial crops -
coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, wood; staple crops - rice, corn, sorghum;
shortage of wheat flour

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana en route
to the US and Europe

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (1970-89), $700 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $770 million

Currency: 1 gourde (G) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: gourdes (G) per US$1 - 14.10 (1 December 1994), 12.00
(1 July 1993), 8.4 (December 1991), fixed rate of 5.000 through second
quarter of 1991

Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September

@Haiti:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 40 km (single track; privately owned industrial line)
narrow gauge: 40 km 0.760-m gauge

Highways:
total: 4,000 km
paved: 950 km
unpaved: otherwise improved 900 km; unimproved earth 2,150 km

Inland waterways: negligible; less than 100 km navigable

Ports: Cap-Haitien, Gonaives, Jacmel, Jeremie, Cayes, Miragoane,
Port-au-Prince, Port-de-Paix, Saint-Marc

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 14
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 6
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 5

@Haiti:Communications

Telephone system: 36,000 telephones; domestic facilities barely
adequate, international facilities slightly better
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth station

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 33, FM 0, shortwave 2
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 4
televisions: NA

@Haiti:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Police
note: the regular Haitian Army, Navy and Air Force are currently
suspended an