commodities:
food 23%, manufactured goods 21%, machinery and transportation
equipment 19%, chemicals, fuels

Imports - partners:
US 22.5%, Trinidad and Tobago 14.5%, Netherlands 13.6%, Argentina
6.6%, Venezuela 5.2%, UK 5.2%, France 4.5% (2005)

Debt - external:
$257 million (2004)

Economic aid - recipient:
$-21.5 million (2004)

Currency (code):
East Caribbean dollar (XCD)

Currency code:
XCD

Exchange rates:
East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7 (2005), 2.7 (2004), 2.7
(2003), 2.7 (2002)

Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

Communications Saint Lucia

Telephones - main lines in use:
51,100 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
93,000 (2004)

Telephone system:
general assessment: adequate system
domestic: system is automatically switched
international: country code - 1-758; direct microwave radio relay
link with Martinique and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines;
tropospheric scatter to Barbados; international calls beyond these
countries are carried by Intelsat from Martinique

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 7, shortwave 0 (2004)

Radios:
111,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
2 (of which one is a commercial broadcast station and one is a
community antenna television or CATV channel) (2004)

Televisions:
32,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.lc

Internet hosts:
21 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
15 (2000)

Internet users:
55,000 (2005)

Transportation Saint Lucia

Airports:
2 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2006)

Roadways:
total: 910 km
paved: 48 km
unpaved: 862 km (2000)

Ports and terminals:
Castries, Cul-de-Sac, Vieux-Fort

Military Saint Lucia

Military branches:
no regular military forces; Royal Saint Lucia Police Force
(includes Special Service Unit, Coast Guard) (2006)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 42,742 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 33,539 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 1,651 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
NA

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
NA

Transnational Issues Saint Lucia

Disputes - international:
joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves
Island sustains human habitation, a criterion unde