achinery and transport equipment; chemicals; fuels,
minerals, and metals; agricultural products
partners: Czech Republic 37.7%, Germany 17.1%, Hungary 5.3%, Austria
5.3%, Italy 4.6%, Russia 4.0%, Poland 2.6%, Ukraine 1.8%, US 1.6%
(January-September 1994)

Imports: $6.1 billion (f.o.b., January-November 1994)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment; fuels and lubricants;
manufactured goods; raw materials; chemicals; agricultural products
partners: Czech Republic 29.9%, Russia 19.0%, Germany 13.2%, Austria
5.8%, Italy 4.3%, US 2.6%, Poland 2.4%, Ukraine 1.9%, Hungary 1.6%
(January-September 1994)

External debt: $4.2 billion hard currency indebtedness (1994 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate NA%

Electricity:
capacity: 6,300,000 kW
production: 20.9 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,609 kWh (1993)

Industries: metal and metal products; food and beverages; electricity,
gas, and water; coking, oil production, and nuclear fuel production;
chemicals and manmade fibers; machinery; paper and printing;
earthenware and ceramics; transport vehicles; textiles; electrical and
optical apparatus; rubber products

Agriculture: largely self-sufficient in food production; diversified
crop and livestock production, including grains, potatoes, sugar
beets, hops, fruit, hogs, cattle, and poultry; exporter of forest
products

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin bound
for Western Europe

Economic aid:
donor: the former Czechoslovakia was a donor - $4.2 billion in
bilateral aid to non-Communist less developed countries (1954-89)

Currency: 1 koruna (Sk) = 100 halierov

Exchange rates: koruny (Sk) per US$1 - 31.14 (September 1994), 32.9
(December 1993), 28.59 (December 1992), 28.26 (1992), 29.53 (1991),
17.95 (1990), 15.05 (1989); note - values before 1993 reflect
Czechoslovak exchange rate

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Slovakia:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 3,660 km (electrified 635 km)
broad gauge: 102 km 1.520-m gauge
standard gauge: 3,511 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 47 km (35 km 1,000-m gauge; 12 km 0.750-m gauge) (1994)

Highways:
total: 17,650 km (1990)
paved: NA
unpaved: NA

Inland waterways: NA km

Pipelines: petroleum products NA km; natural gas 2,700 km

Ports: Bratislava, Komarno

Merchant marine:
total: 2 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,160 GRT/6,163 DWT

Airports:
total: 37
with pave