; chemicals
13.4%; miscellaneous manufactured goods 13.1%; raw materials 5.0%
(1995)
partners: EU 37.4%, Central Europe Free Trade Agreement 44.3% (Czech
Republic 35.2%), FSU 7.1% (1995)

Imports:
total value : $9.6 billion (f.o.b., January-November 1996)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment 29.0%; fuels 18.0%;
intermediate manufactured goods 17.6%; miscellaneous manufactured
goods 8.0% (1995)
partners: EU 34.7%, Central Europe Free Trade Agreement 32.9% (Czech
Republic 27.5%), FSU 19.5% (1995)

Debt - external: $4.6 billion hard currency indebtedness (1995 est.)

Economic aid: NA

Currency: 1 koruna (Sk) = 100 halierov

Exchange rates: koruny (Sk) per US$1 - 31.50 (January 1997), 30.654
(1996), 29.713 (1995), 32.045 (1994), 30.770 (1993), 28.26 (1992),
29.53 (1991); note - values before 1993 reflect Czechoslovak exchange
rate

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Slovakia:Communications

Telephones: 1,362,178 (1992 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: NA

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA; note - there are
22 private broadcast stations and 1 public (state) broadcast station

Radios: 915,000 (1995 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 56 private broadcast stations, 1 public
(state) broadcast station (1995 est.)

Televisions: 1.2 million (1995 est.)

@Slovakia:Transportation

Railways:
total: 3,660 km
broad gauge: 102 km 1.520-m gauge
standard gauge : 3,507 km 1.435-m gauge (1424 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 51 km (46 km 1,000-m gauge; 5 km 0.750-m gauge) (1995)

Highways:
total: 17,868 km
paved: 17,654 km (including 198 km of expressways)
unpaved: 214 km (1995 est.)

Waterways: 172 km on the Danube

Pipelines: petroleum products NA km; natural gas 2,700 km

Ports and harbors: Bratislava, Komarno

Merchant marine:
total: 4 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 17,010 GRT/22,039
DWT (1996 est.)

Airports: 37 (1994 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total : 12
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 4 (1994 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 25
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m : 10
under 914 m: 11 (1994 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Air and Air Defense Forces, Reserve Force
(Home Guards)

Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 1,462,052 (1997 est.)

Military manpower -