partners: US 45%, EU, Central America and Caribbean

Imports: $2.205 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: capital goods 21%, crude oil 11%, foodstuffs 9%, consumer
goods, chemicals
partners: US 40%, EU, Central America and Caribbean, Japan

External debt: $6.7 billion (yearend 1993 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate 1.8% (1994 est.); accounts for
about 9% of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 960,000 kW
production: 2.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,047 kWh (1993)

Industries: manufacturing and construction, petroleum refining,
brewing, cement and other construction materials, sugar milling

Agriculture: accounts for 10% of GDP (1992 est.); crops - bananas,
rice, corn, coffee, sugarcane; livestock; fishing; importer of food
grain, vegetables

Illicit drugs: major cocaine transshipment point and drug money
laundering center

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $516 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $582 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $4 million

Currency: 1 balboa (B) = 100 centesimos

Exchange rates: balboas (B) per US$1 - 1.000 (fixed rate)

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Railroads:
total: 238 km
broad gauge: 78 km 1.524-m gauge
narrow gauge: 160 km 0.914-m gauge

Highways:
total: 8,530 km
paved: 2,745 km
unpaved: gravel, crushed stone 3,270 km; improved, unimproved earth
2,515 km

Inland waterways: 800 km navigable by shallow draft vessels; 82 km
Panama Canal

Pipelines: crude oil 130 km

Ports: Bahia de las Minas, Balboa, Colon, Cristobal, Panama

Merchant marine:
total: 3,526 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 60,748,525
GRT/95,102,552 DWT
ships by type: barge carrier 1, bulk 787, cargo 1,070, chemical tanker
175, combination bulk 33, combination ore/oil 25, container 259,
liquefied gas tanker 125, livestock carrier 8, multifunction
large-load carrier 6, oil tanker 465, passenger 24, passenger-cargo 3,
refrigerated cargo 284, roll-on/roll-off cargo 81, short-sea passenger
34, specialized tanker 9, vehicle carrier 137
note: a flag of convenience registry; includes 93 countries; the 10
major fleet flags are: Japan 1,171 ships, Greece 323, Hong Kong 276,
US 212, Taiwan 184, Singapore 181, South Korea 172, China 145 ships,
UK 102, and Norway 70

Airports:
total: 115
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with