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Exports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1995)
commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, steel
products, fertilizer, sugar, cocoa, coffee, citrus, flowers
partners: US 48%, Caricom countries15%, Latin America 9%, EU 5%
(1994)

Imports: $996 million (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured
goods, food, live animals
partners: US 47.7%, Venezuela 10%, UK 8.3%, other EU 8% (1994)

External debt: $2 billion (1994)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $10 million (1993)

Currency: 1 Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TT$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Trinidad and Tobago dollars (TT$) per US$1 -
5.9412 (January 1996), 5.9192 (1995), 5.9249 (1994), 5.3511 (1993),
4.2500 (fixed rate 1989-1992); note - effective 13 April 1993, the
exchange rate of the TT$ is market-determined as opposed to the
prior fixed relationship to the US dollar

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
note: minimal agricultural railroad system near San Fernando;
railway service was discontinued in 1968

Highways:
total: 8,352 km
paved: 3,978 km
unpaved: 4,374 km (1987 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 1,032 km; petroleum products 19 km; natural
gas 904 km

Ports: Pointe-a-Pierre, Point Fortin, Point Lisas, Port-of-Spain,
Scarborough, Tembladora

Merchant marine:
total: 2 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,928 GRT/5,571 DWT
ships by type: cargo 1, oil tanker 1 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 5
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 2
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 1 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 170,000 (1992 est.)

Telephone system: excellent international service; good local
service
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Barbados and Guyana

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 4, shortwave 0

Radios: 700,000 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 5 (1987 est.)

Televisions: 400,000 (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force (includes Ground
Forces, Coast Guard, and Air Wing), Trinidad and Tobago Police
Service

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 351,835
males fit for military service: 252,532 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $83