balance:

$-211 million (2007 est.)

Exports:

$84.3 million (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

petroleum products, bedding, handicrafts, electronic components,
transport equipment, food and live animals

Exports - partners:

Spain 34%, Germany 20.7%, Italy 7.7%, Singapore 5.8%, UK 4.9% (2006)

Imports:

$522.8 million (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment,
manufactures, chemicals, oil

Imports - partners:

US 21.1%, China 16.4%, Germany 13.3%, Singapore 12.7%, Spain 6.5%
(2006)

Economic aid - recipient:

$7.23 million (2005)

Debt - external:

$359.8 million (June 2006)

Currency (code):

East Caribbean dollar (XCD)

Currency code:

XCD

Exchange rates:

East Caribbean dollars (XCD) per US dollar - 2.7 (2007), 2.7 (2006),
2.7 (2005), 2.7 (2004), 2.7 (2003)
note: fixed rate since 1976

Communications
Antigua and Barbuda

Telephones - main lines in use:

37,500 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

110,200 (2006)

Telephone system:

general assessment: NA
domestic: good automatic telephone system
international: country code - 1-268; landing point for the East
Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) submarine cable with links to 13 other
islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin
Islands to Trinidad; satellite earth stations - 2; tropospheric
scatter to Saba (Netherlands Antilles) and Guadeloupe (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 4, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:

36,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

2 (1997)

Televisions:

31,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.ag

Internet hosts:

2,215 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

16 (2000)

Internet users:

60,000 (2007)

Transportation
Antigua and Barbuda

Airports:

3 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 1,165 km
paved: 384 km
unpaved: 781 km (2002)

Merchant marine:

total: 1,146
by type: barge carrier 2, bulk carrier 50, cargo 651, carrier 4,
chemical tanker 5, container 392, liquefied gas 12, petroleum tanker
1, refrigerated cargo 9, roll on/roll off 20
foreign-owned: 1,113 (Australia 1, Colombia 2, Cyprus 18, Denmark
19, Estonia 23, France 1, Germany 941, Greece 3, Iceland 12, I