cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$-5.57 billion (2003)

Exports:
$46.77 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 44%, intermediate manufactures
25%, chemicals 7%, raw materials and fuel 7% (2000)

Exports - partners:
Germany 37.1%, Slovakia 8%, Austria 6.3%, UK 5.4%, Poland 4.8%,
France 4.7%, Italy 4.5%, Netherlands 4.1% (2003)

Imports:
$50.4 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 40%, intermediate manufactures
21%, raw materials and fuels 13%, chemicals 11% (2000)

Imports - partners:
Germany 32.6%, Italy 5.3%, China 5.2%, Slovakia 5.2%, France 4.9%,
Russia 4.6%, Austria 4.3%, Poland 4.2% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$26.8 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$28 billion (2003)

Economic aid - recipient:
$108 million; EU structural adjustment funds (2002)

Currency:
Czech koruna (CZK)

Currency code:
CZK

Exchange rates:
koruny per US dollar - 28.209 (2003), 32.7385 (2002), 38.0353
(2001), 38.5984 (2000), 34.5692 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Czech Republic

Telephones - main lines in use:
3.626 million (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
9,708,700 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: privatization and modernization of the Czech
telecommunication system got a late start but is advancing steadily;
growth in the use of mobile cellular telephones is particularly
vigorous
domestic: 86% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber
systems now being enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
(ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals;
trunk systems include fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
international: country code - 420; satellite earth stations - 2
Intersputnik (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Intelsat, 1
Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 1 Globalstar

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 31, FM 304, shortwave 17 (2000)

Radios:
3,159,134 (December 2000)

Television broadcast stations:
150 (plus 1,434 repeaters) (2000)

Televisions:
3,405,834 (December 2000)

Internet country code:
.cz

Internet hosts:
295,677 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
more than 300 (2000)

Internet users:
2.7 million (2003)

Transportation Czech Republic

Railways:
total: 9,520 km
standard gauge: 9,421 km 1.4