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(f.o.b., 1998 est.) Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment 23%, fuels and minerals 19%, chemicals 8%, foodstuffs (1997) Imports--partners: Germany 16%, Italy 16%, Russia 12%, France 6% (1997) Debt--external: $10 billion (1998 est.) Economic aid--recipient: $510.1 million (1995) Currency: 1 leu (L) = 100 bani Exchange rates: lei (L) per US$1--11,353.6 (January 1999), 8,875.6 (1998), 7,167.9 (1997), 3,084.2 (1996), 2,033.3 (1995), 1,655.1 (1994) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Telephones: 2.6 million (1993 est.) Telephone system: domestic: poor service; 89% of telephone network is automatic; trunk network is microwave radio relay; roughly 3,300 villages with no service (February 1990 est.) international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat; new digital international direct-dial exchanges are in Bucharest (1993 est.) Radio broadcast stations: AM 12, FM 5, shortwave 0 note: in 1995, 135 local radio stations were registered Radios: 4.64 million (1992 est.) Television broadcast stations: 130 (in addition, there are about 400 low-power repeaters) (1997) Televisions: 4.58 million (1992 est.) Transportation Railways: total: 11,376 km broad gauge: 60 km 1.524-m gauge standard gauge: 10,889 km 1.435-m gauge (3,723 km electrified; 3,060 km double track) narrow gauge: 427 km 0.760-m gauge (1994) Highways: total: 153,358 km paved: 78,213 km (including 113 km of expressways) unpaved: 75,145 km (1996 est.) Waterways: 1,724 km (1984) Pipelines: crude oil 2,800 km; petroleum products 1,429 km; natural gas 6,400 km (1992) Ports and harbors: Braila, Constanta, Galati, Mangalia, Sulina, Tulcea Merchant marine: total: 199 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,996,157 GRT/2,917,895 DWT ships by type: bulk 35, cargo 141, container 2, oil tanker 7, passenger 1, passenger-cargo 1, railcar carrier 2, roll-on/roll-off cargo 9, specialized tanker 1 (1998 est.) Airports: 27 (1998 est.) Airports--with paved runways: total: 21 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6 1,524 to 2,437 m: 11 (1998 est.) Airports--with unpaved runways: total: 6 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 2 (1998 est.) Heliports: 2 (1998 est.) Military Military branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Paramilitary Forces, Civil Defense Military manpower--military age: 20 ye
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