% (EU 50%, US 3.1%) (1994)

Imports: $7.1 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: fuels and minerals 26.8%, machinery and transport
equipment 25.1%, textiles and footwear 12.3%, food and agricultural
goods 9.3%, chemicals 7.9%, other 18.6% (1994)
partners: OECD 60% (EU 44.5%, US 6.5%), East and Central Europe
6.1%, developing countries 16.6%, Russia 13.8%, other 3.5% (1994)

External debt: $4.7 billion (1995)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $81 million (1993)

Currency: 1 leu (L) = 100 bani

Exchange rates: lei (L) per US$1 - 2,599.24 (January 1996),
2,033.28 (1995), 1,655.09 (1994), 760.05 (1993), 307.95 (1992),
76.39 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 11,374 km
broad gauge: 60 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 10,887 km 1.435-m gauge (3,866 km electrified; 3,060
km double track)
narrow gauge: 427 km 0.760-m gauge (1994)

Highways:
total: 153,014 km
paved: 78,037 km (including 113 km of expressways)
unpaved: 74,977 km (1992 est.)

Waterways: 1,724 km (1984)

Pipelines: crude oil 2,800 km; petroleum products 1,429 km;
natural gas 6,400 km (1992)

Ports: Braila, Constanta, Galatz, Mangalia, Sulina, Tulcea

Merchant marine:
total: 233 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,425,729
GRT/3,641,741 DWT
ships by type: bulk 39, cargo 166, container 2, oil tanker 13,
passenger 1, passenger-cargo 1, railcar carrier 2, roll-on/roll-off
cargo 9
note: Romania owns an additional 15 ships (1,000 GRT or over)
totaling 1,078,490 DWT operating under the registries of Liberia,
Malta, Cyprus, and The Bahamas (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 156
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 4
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 9
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 14
with unpaved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 3
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 17
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 108 (1994 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 2.3 million (1990 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: poor service; 89% of telephone network is automatic; trunk
network is microwave radio relay; roughly 3,300 villages with no
service (February 1990 est.)
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat; new digital
international direct-dial exchanges are in Bucharest (1993 est.)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 12, FM 5, shortwave 0

Radios: 4.64 million (1992