:
ferrous and nonferrous metals, fuel and petroleum products,
chemicals, machinery and transport equipment, food products
Exports - partners:
Russia 23.3%, Turkey 7.9%, Italy 5.8% (2007)
Imports:
$60.41 billion (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
energy, machinery and equipment, chemicals
Imports - partners:
Russia 23.9%, Germany 11.8%, China 8.5%, Poland 8.1%, Turkmenistan
5.4% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$409.6 million (1995); IMF Extended Funds Facility $2.2 billion
(2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$32.48 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$69.04 billion (31 December 2007)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$31.08 billion (2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$895 million (2007 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$42.87 billion (2006)
Currency (code):
hryvnia (UAH)
Currency code:
UAH
Exchange rates:
hryvnia (UAH) per US dollar - 5.05 (2007), 5.05 (2006), 5.1247
(2005), 5.3192 (2004), 5.3327 (2003)
Communications
Ukraine
Telephones - main lines in use:
12.858 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
55.24 million (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan
emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international
connections, and the mobile-cellular system
domestic: at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a
telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair;
more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be
satisfied; telephone density is rising and the domestic trunk system
is being improved; about one-third of Ukraine's networks are digital
and a majority of regional centers now have digital switching
stations; improvements in local networks and local exchanges
continue to lag; the mobile-cellular telephone system is expanding
rapidly
international: country code - 380; 2 new domestic trunk lines are a
part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and 3
Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic
Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connects 18 countries;
additional international service is provided by the
Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and
by an unknown number of earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat,
and Intersputnik satellite systems
Radio broadcast stations:
524 (sta
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