and nonferrous metals; textiles;
chemicals; fuel re-exports
partners: Russia, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan (1992)

Imports: $NA
commodities: fuel, grain and other foods, machinery and parts,
transport equipment
partners: Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey (1993); note - EU and US sent
humanitarian food shipments

External debt: NA (T'bilisi owes about $400 million to Turkmenistan
for natural gas as of January 1995)

Industrial production: growth rate -27% (1993); accounts for 36% of
GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 4,410,000 kW
production: 9.1 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,526 kWh (1993)

Industries: heavy industrial products include raw steel, rolled steel,
airplanes; machine tools, foundry equipment, electric locomotives,
tower cranes, electric welding equipment, machinery for food
preparation and meat packing, electric motors, process control
equipment, instruments; trucks, tractors, and other farm machinery;
light industrial products, including cloth, hosiery, and shoes;
chemicals; wood-working industries; the most important food industry
is wine

Agriculture: accounted for 97% of former USSR citrus fruits and 93% of
former USSR tea; important producer of grapes; also cultivates
vegetables and potatoes; dependent on imports for grain, dairy
products, sugar; small livestock sector

Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy; mostly
for domestic consumption; used as transshipment point for illicit
drugs to Western Europe

Economic aid:
recipient: heavily dependent on US and EU for humanitarian grain
shipments; EC granted around $70 million in trade credits in 1992 and
another $40 million in 1993; Turkey granted $50 million in 1993;
smaller scale credits granted by Russia and China

Currency: coupons introduced in April 1993 to be followed by
introduction of the lari at undetermined future date; in July 1993 use
of the Russian ruble was banned

Exchange rates: coupons per $US1 - 1,280,000 (end December 1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Georgia:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 1,570 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial
lines
broad gauge: 1,570 km 1.520-m gauge (1990)

Highways:
total: 33,900 km
paved and graveled: 29,500 km
unpaved: earth 4,400 km (1990)

Pipelines: crude oil 370 km; refined products 300 km; natural gas 440
km (1992)

Ports: Bat'umi, P'ot'i, Sokhumi

Merchant marine:
total: 32 shi