oducts, chemicals, textiles, precious
and semiprecious metals and jewelry, metals and metal products;

partners--Saudi Arabia 16%, Switzerland 8%, Jordan 6%, Kuwait 6%,
US 5%

_#_Imports: $1.9 billion (c.i.f., 1989 est.);

commodities--NA;

partners--Italy 14%, France 12%, US 6%, Turkey 5%, Saudi Arabia 3%

_#_External debt: $900 million (1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 1,381,000 kW capacity; 3,870 million kWh produced,
1,170 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: banking, food processing, textiles, cement, oil
refining, chemicals, jewelry, some metal fabricating

_#_Agriculture: accounts for about one-third of GDP; principal
products--citrus fruits, vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco, hemp
(hashish), sheep, and goats; not self-sufficient in grain

_#_Illicit drugs: illicit producer of opium poppy and cannabis for the
international drug trade; opium poppy production in Al Biqa
is increasing; hashish production is shipped to Western Europe, Israel,
and the Middle East

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $356
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $608 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $962 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $9 million

_#_Currency: Lebanese pound (plural--pounds);
1 Lebanese pound (5L) = 100 piasters

_#_Exchange rates: Lebanese pounds (5L) per US$1--974.22 (January
1991), 695.09 (1990), 496.69 (1989), 409.23 (1988), 224.60 (1987), 38.37
(1986), 16.42 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 378 km total; 296 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 82 km
1.050-meter gauge; all single track; system almost entirely inoperable

_#_Highways: 7,370 km total; 6,270 km paved, 450 km gravel and crushed
stone, 650 km improved earth

_#_Pipelines: crude oil, 72 km (none in operation)

_#_Ports: Beirut, Tripoli, Ras Silata, Juniyah, Sidon,
Az Zahrani, Tyre, Shikka; northern ports are occupied by Syrian
forces and southern ports are occupied or partially quarantined by
Israeli forces

_#_Merchant marine: 60 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 257,220
GRT/379,691 DWT; includes 39 cargo, 1 refrigerated cargo, 2 vehicle
carrier, 2 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 1 container, 8 livestock carrier, 1
petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 chemical tanker,
1 specialized tanker, 3 bulk, 1 combination bulk

_#_Civil air: 15 ma