rs--US 36.2%, Japan 13.7% (1989)

_#_Imports: $54.7 billion (c.i.f., 1990);

commodities--machinery and equipment 15.3%, crude oil 5%, chemical
and chemical products 11.1%, basic metals 13.0%, foodstuffs 2.2% (1989);

partners--Japan 31%, US 23%, FRG 5% (1989)

_#_External debt: $1.1 billion (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 4.7% (1990 est.)

_#_Electricity: 17,000,000 kW capacity; 68,000 million kWh produced,
3,310 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: electronics, textiles, chemicals, clothing,
food processing, plywood, sugar milling, cement, shipbuilding, petroleum

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 4% of GNP and 16% of labor force
(includes part-time farmers); heavily subsidized sector; major
crops--vegetables, rice, fruit, tea; livestock--hogs, poultry, beef,
milk, cattle; not self-sufficient in wheat, soybeans, corn; fish catch
increasing, 1.4 million metric tons (1988)

_#_Economic aid: US, including Ex-Im (FY46-82), $4.6 billion; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $445
million

_#_Currency: New Taiwan dollar (plural--dollars);
1 New Taiwan dollar (NT$) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: New Taiwan dollars per US$1--27.2 (January 1991),
27.243 (November 1990), 26.407 (1989), 28.589 (1988), 31.845 (1987),
37.838 (1986), 39.849 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

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_#_Railroads: about 4,600 km total track with 1,075 km common
carrier lines and 3,525 km industrial lines; common carrier lines
consist of the 1.067-meter gauge 708 km West Line and the 367 km East
Line; a 98.25 km South Link Line connection is under construction; common
carrier lines owned by the government and operated by the Railway
Administration under Ministry of Communications; industrial lines owned
and operated by government enterprises

_#_Highways: 20,041 km total; 17,095 km bituminous or concrete,
2,371 km crushed stone or gravel, 575 km graded earth

_#_Pipelines: 615 km refined products, 97 km natural gas

_#_Ports: Kao-hsiung, Chi-lung (Keelung), Hua-lien, Su-ao, T'ai-tung

_#_Merchant marine: 226 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 6,557,167
GRT/9,153,646 DWT; includes 1 short-sea passenger, 52 cargo, 17
refrigerated cargo, 75 container, 15 petroleum, oils, and lubricants
(POL) tanker, 3 combination ore/oil, 1 specialized tanker, 62 bulk

_#_Airports: 38 total, 37 usable; 33 with permanent-surface runways;
3 wit