Imports:
$5.535 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment 33.5%, chemical products 11.6%, textiles
10.3%, foodstuffs 9.4%, transportation equipment 8.9% (2001)

Imports - partners:
Finland 15.9%, Germany 11.1%, Russia 10.2%, Sweden 7.7%, Ukraine
4.3%, China 4.2%, Japan 4.1% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$1.377 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$7.002 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$108 million (2000)

Currency:
Estonian kroon (EEK)

Currency code:
EEK

Exchange rates:
krooni per US dollar - 13.8564 (2003), 16.6118 (2002), 17.4781
(2001), 16.9686 (2000), 14.6776 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Estonia

Telephones - main lines in use:
475,000 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
881,000 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: foreign investment in the form of joint
business ventures greatly improved telephone service; substantial
fiber-optic cable systems carry telephone, TV, and radio traffic in
the digital mode; Internet services are available throughout most of
the country - only about 11,000 subscriber requests were unfilled by
September 2000
domestic: a wide range of high quality voice, data, and Internet
services is available throughout the country
international: country code - 372; fiber-optic cables to Finland,
Sweden, Latvia, and Russia provide worldwide packet-switched
service; two international switches are located in Tallinn (2001)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0, FM 98, shortwave 0 (2001)

Radios:
1.01 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (2001)

Televisions:
605,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.ee

Internet hosts:
82,142 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
38 (2001)

Internet users:
444,000 (2002)

Transportation Estonia

Railways:
total: 958 km
broad gauge: 958 km 1.520-m/1.524-m gauge (132 km electrified)
note: gauge being increased from 1.520-m to 1.524-m to reduce wear
on wheels and rail as lines are modernized (2003)

Highways:
total: 51,411 km
paved: 10,334 km (including 94 km of expressways)
unpaved: 41,077 km (2000)

Waterways:
500 km (2003)

Pipelines:
gas 859 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Haapsalu, Kunda, Muuga, Paldiski, Parnu, Tallinn

Merchant marine:
total: 32 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 212,998 GRT/177,488 DWT
by type: bulk 2,