Surinam |
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| TRADE AND BUSINESS |
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| Agriculture
- products |
paddy
rice, bananas, palm kernels, coconuts, plantains, peanuts;
beef, chickens; forest products; shrimp |
| Exports |
$445 million
f.o.b. (2002) |
| Exports
- commodities |
alumina,
crude oil, lumber, shrimp and fish, rice, bananas |
| Exports
- partners |
US 25.3%,
Norway 20.4%, France 8.2%, Trinidad and Tobago 6.4%, Iceland
6%, Canada 5.9%, Netherlands 5.6% (2002) |
| Imports |
$300 million
f.o.b. (2002) |
| Imports-
commodities |
capital equipment,
petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods |
| Imports
- partners |
US 22.2%,
Netherlands 15.6%, China 11.9%, Trinidad and Tobago 11.2%,
France 7.5%, Netherlands Antilles 7.2%, Japan 5.7% (2002)
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| Currency |
Surinamese
guilder (SRG) |
| Exchange
rates |
Surinamese
guilders per US dollar - 2,346.75 (2002), 2,178.5 (2001),
1,322.47 (2000), 859.44 (1999), 401 (1998)
note: during 1998, the exchange rate splintered into four
distinct rates; in January 1999 the government floated the
guilder, but subsequently fixed it when the black-market rate
plunged; the government currently allows trading within a
band of SRG 500 around the official rate |
| Fiscal
year |
calendar
year |
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