09 billion, including capital expenditures of $23
billion (1992)

Exports: $43.6 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: iron ore, soybean bran, orange juice, footwear, coffee,
motor vehicle parts
partners: EC 27.6%, Latin America 21.8%, US 17.4%, Japan 6.3% (1993)

Imports: $33.2 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: crude oil, capital goods, chemical products, foodstuffs,
coal
partners: US 23.3%, EC 22.5%, Middle East 13.0%, Latin America 11.8%,
Japan 6.5% (1993)

External debt: $134 billion (1994)

Industrial production: growth rate 9.5% (1993); accounts for 39% of
GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 55,130,000 kW
production: 241.4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,589 kWh (1993)

Industries: textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, mining (iron
ore, tin), steel making, machine building - including aircraft, motor
vehicles, motor vehicle parts and assemblies, and other machinery and
equipment

Agriculture: accounts for 11% of GDP; world's largest producer and
exporter of coffee and orange juice concentrate and second-largest
exporter of soybeans; other products - rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa,
beef; self-sufficient in food, except for wheat

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis and coca, mostly for
domestic consumption; government has a small-scale eradication program
to control cannabis and coca cultivation; important transshipment
country for Bolivian and Colombian cocaine headed for the US and
Europe

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $2.5 billion;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $10.2 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $284 million;
former Communist countries (1970-89), $1.3 billion

Currency: 1 real (R$) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: R$ per US$1 - 0.85 (January 1995); CR$ per US$1 -
390.845 (January 1994), 88.449 (1993), 4.513 (1992), 0.407 (1991),
0.068 (1990)
note: on 1 August 1993 the cruzeiro real (CR$), equal to 1,000
cruzeiros, was introduced; another new currency, the real, was
introduced on 1 July 1994, equal to 2,750 cruzeiro reals

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Railroads:
total: 30,612 km (1992)
broad gauge: 5,369 km 1.600-m gauge (1,108 km electrified)
standard gauge: 194 km 1.440-m gauge
narrow gauge: 24,739 km 1.000-m gauge (112 km electrified); 13 km
0.760-m gauge
dual gauge: 310 km 1.600-m/1.000-m gauge (78 km