l products, handicrafts;

partners--NA

_#_Imports: $29.2 million (c.i.f., 1985);

commodities--foodstuffs, beverages, building materials;

partners--NA

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 42,000 kW capacity; 80 million kWh produced, 1,840 kWh
per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: copra, fish, tourism; craft items from shell, wood, and
pearl; offshore banking (embryonic)

_#_Agriculture: coconuts, cacao, taro, breadfruit, fruits, copra;
pigs, chickens

_#_Economic aid: under the terms of the Compact of Free Association,
the US is to provide approximately $40 million in aid annually

_#_Currency: US currency is used

_#_Exchange rates: US currency is used

_#_Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: macadam and concrete roads on major islands (Majuro,
Kwajalein), otherwise stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads and
tracks

_#_Ports: Majuro

_#_Merchant marine: 23 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,654,871
GRT/3,236,549 DWT; includes 2 cargo, 3 container, 7 petroleum, oils, and
lubricants (POL) tanker, 11 bulk carrier; note--a flag of convenience
registry

_#_Airports: 5 total, 5 usable; 4 with permanent-surface runways;
5 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: telephone network--570 lines (Majuro) and 186
(Ebeye); telex services; islands interconnected by shortwave radio (used
mostly for government purposes); stations--1 AM, 2 FM, 1 TV, 1 shortwave;
2 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth stations; US Government satellite
communications system on Kwajalein

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of the US
_%_
_@_Martinique
(overseas department of France)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 1,100 km2; land area: 1,060 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly more than six times the size of
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 290 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; moderated by trade winds; rainy season (June to
October)

_#_Terrain: mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano

_#_Natural resources: coastal scenery and beaches, cultivable land

_#_Land use: arable land 10%; permanent crops 8%; meadows and pastures
30%; forest and woodland 26%; other 26%; includes irrigated 5%

_#_Environment: subject to hurricanes, flooding, and volcanic
activity th