and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis
racquets

Exports - partners:
UK 33.5%, Barbados 13.1%, Saint Lucia 11.5%, Trinidad and Tobago
9.9%, Antigua and Barbuda 8.3%, US 5.3%, Grenada 5.3%, Dominica 4.1%
(2004)

Imports:
$174 million (2002 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers,
minerals and fuels

Imports - partners:
US 37.5%, Trinidad and Tobago 21.3%, UK 10.5% (2004)

Debt - external:
$167.2 million (2000)

Economic aid - recipient:
$47.5 million (1995); note - EU $34.5 million (1998)

Currency (code):
East Caribbean dollar (XCD)

Currency code:
XCD

Exchange rates:
East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7 (2004), 2.7 (2003), 2.7
(2002), 2.7 (2001), 2.7 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Telephones - main lines in use:
27,300 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
10,000 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: adequate system
domestic: islandwide, fully automatic telephone system; VHF/UHF
radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to the other islands of the
Grenadines
international: country code - 1-784; VHF/UHF radiotelephone from
Saint Vincent to Barbados; new SHF radiotelephone to Grenada and to
Saint Lucia; access to Intelsat earth station in Martinique through
Saint Lucia

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 6, shortwave 0 (2004)

Radios:
77,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (plus three repeaters) (2004)

Televisions:
18,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.vc

Internet hosts:
4 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
15 (2000)

Internet users:
7,000 (2002)

Transportation Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Highways:
total: 829 km
paved: 580 km
unpaved: 249 km (2002)

Ports and harbors:
Kingstown

Merchant marine:
total: 657 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 5,967,418 GRT/9,041,023 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 112, cargo 366, chemical tanker 18,
combination ore/oil 1, container 24, liquefied gas 4, livestock
carrier 6, passenger 5, passenger/cargo 19, petroleum tanker 29,
refrigerated cargo 48, roll on/roll off 22, specialized tanker 2,
vehicle carrier 1
foreign-owned: 554 (Australia 2, Bangladesh 5, Barbados 1, Belgium
1, British 5, Bulgaria 17, China 115, Congo 1, Croatia 7, Cuba 1,
Czech Republic 1, Denmark 12, Egypt 2, Estonia 19, France 12,
Ge