products

Exports - partners:
US 21.3%, Venezuela 16%, Bahamas, The 7.6%, Singapore 5.2%,
Honduras 4.9%, Guatemala 4.4% (2003)

Imports:
$2.233 billion f.o.b. (2002)

Imports - commodities:
crude petroleum, food, manufactures

Imports - partners:
Venezuela 64.8%, US 13.6%, Netherlands 7.8% (2003)

Debt - external:
$1.35 billion (1996)

Economic aid - recipient:
IMF provided $61 million in 2000, and the Netherlands continued its
support with $40 million (2000)

Currency:
Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG)

Currency code:
ANG

Exchange rates:
Netherlands Antillean guilders per US dollar - 1.79 (2003), 1.79
(2002), 1.79 (2001), 1.79 (2000), 1.79 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Netherlands Antilles

Telephones - main lines in use:
81,000 (2001)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
81,000 (2001)

Telephone system:
general assessment: generally adequate facilities
domestic: extensive interisland microwave radio relay links
international: country code - 599; submarine cables - 2; satellite
earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 8, FM 19, shortwave 0 (2004)

Radios:
217,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (there is also a cable service, which supplies programs received
from various US satellite networks and two Venezuelan channels)
(2004)

Televisions:
69,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.an

Internet hosts:
119 (2001)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
6

Internet users:
2,000 (2000)

Transportation Netherlands Antilles

Highways:
total: 600 km
paved: 300 km
unpaved: 300 km

Ports and harbors:
Kralendijk, Philipsburg, Willemstad

Merchant marine:
total: 162 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,317,007 GRT/1,668,499 DWT
registered in other countries: 1 (2004 est.)
foreign-owned: Belgium 3, Denmark 1, Germany 57, Monaco 4,
Netherlands 70, New Zealand 1, Norway 5, Peru 1, Spain 1, Sweden 5,
Turkey 2, United Kingdom 6
by type: bulk 4, cargo 59, chemical tanker 1, combination bulk 1,
combination ore/oil 3, container 28, liquefied gas 6,
multi-functional large load carrier 22, passenger 1, petroleum
tanker 1, refrigerated cargo 28, roll on/roll off 7, specialized
tanker 1

Airports:
5 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 5
over 3,047 m: 1
2038 to 3047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1
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