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Exports - partners:
US 18.7%, Trinidad and Tobago 14.5%, UK 14%, Jamaica 7.8%, Saint
Lucia 6.2%, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4.7% (2003)

Imports:
$1.039 billion (2002)

Imports - commodities:
consumer goods, machinery, foodstuffs, construction materials,
chemicals, fuel, electrical components

Imports - partners:
US 37.7%, Trinidad and Tobago 19.6%, UK 6.2%, Japan 4.4% (2003)

Debt - external:
$668 million (2003)

Economic aid - recipient:
$9.1 million (1995)

Currency:
Barbadian dollar (BBD)

Currency code:
BBD

Exchange rates:
Barbadian dollars per US dollar - 2 (2003), 2 (2002), 2 (2001), 2
(2000), 2 (1999)

Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

Communications Barbados

Telephones - main lines in use:
134,000 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
140,000 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: NA
domestic: island-wide automatic telephone system
international: country code - 1-246; satellite earth stations - 4
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Trinidad and
Saint Lucia

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:
237,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (plus two cable channels) (1997)

Televisions:
76,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.bb

Internet hosts:
204 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
19 (2000)

Internet users:
100,000 (2003)

Transportation Barbados

Highways:
total: 1,793 km
paved: 1,719 km
unpaved: 74 km (1999)

Ports and harbors:
Bridgetown, Speightstown (Port Charles Marina)

Merchant marine:
total: 42 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 427,465 GRT/668,195 DWT
by type: bulk 11, cargo 20, chemical tanker 1, combination bulk 3,
petroleum tanker 6, roll on/roll off 1
registered in other countries: 3 (2004 est.)
foreign-owned: Australia 1, Bahamas 1, Bangladesh 1, Canada 5,
Greece 7, Hong Kong 7, Italy 2, Lebanon 1, Norway 9, United Kingdom
10

Airports:
1 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 1
over 3,047 m: 1 (2004 est.)

Military Barbados

Military branches:
Royal Barbados Defense Force (Troops Command and Coast Guard)

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service; volunteers at
earlier age with parental consent; no conscription (2001)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 77,714 (2004 est.)

Military