get:
revenues: $16 billion (1995 est.)
expenditures: $21 billion (1995 est.)

Exports: $8.3 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: petroleum, coffee, coal, bananas, fresh cut flowers
partners: US 39%, EC 25.7%, Japan 2.9%, Venezuela 8.5% (1992)

Imports: $10.6 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer
goods, chemicals, paper products
partners: US 36%, EC 18%, Brazil 4%, Venezuela 6.5%, Japan 8.7% (1992)

External debt: $12.6 billion (1994 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate 5% (1994 est.); accounts for about
20% of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 10,220,000 kW
production: 33 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 890 kWh (1993)

Industries: textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear,
beverages, chemicals, metal products, cement; mining - gold, coal,
emeralds, iron, nickel, silver, salt

Agriculture: growth rate 3.8% (1994 est.); accounts for about 15% of
GDP; crops make up two-thirds and livestock one-third of agricultural
output; climate and soils permit a wide variety of crops, such as
coffee, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseeds,
vegetables; forest products and shrimp farming are becoming more
important

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of coca, opium poppies, and cannabis;
about 45,000 hectares of coca under cultivation; the world's largest
processor of coca derivatives into cocaine; supplier of cocaine to the
US and other international drug markets; active eradication program
against narcotics crop

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.6 billion;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $3.3 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $399 million

Currency: 1 Colombian peso (Col$) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: Colombian pesos (Col$) per US$1 - 846.67 (January
1995), 844.84 (1994), 863.06 (1993), 759.28 (1992), 633.05 (1991),
502.26 (1990)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Colombia:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 3,386 km
standard gauge: 150 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 3,236 km 0.914-m gauge (2,611 km in use)

Highways:
total: 107,377 km (1991)
paved: 12,778 km
unpaved: gravel/earth 94,599 km

Inland waterways: 14,300 km, navigable by river boats

Pipelines: crude oil 3,585 km; petroleum products 1,350 km; natural
gas 830 km; natural gas liquids 125 km

Ports: Barranquilla, Buenaventura