orway 23.6%, US 16.5%, Canada 16.1%, Belgium 9.7%, France 7.9%,
UAE 7.3% (2005)

Imports:
$750 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods

Imports - partners:
US 29.3%, Netherlands 17.5%, Trinidad and Tobago 12.7%, China 6.5%,
Japan 5.2%, Brazil 4.3% (2005)

Debt - external:
$504.3 million (2005 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$46 million Netherlands provided $37 million for project and
program assistance, European Development Fund $4 million, Belgium $2
million (2003)

Currency (code):
Surinam dollar (SRD)

Currency code:
SRG

Exchange rates:
Surinamese dollars per US dollar - 2.7317 (2005), Surinamese
guilders per US dollar - 2.7336 (2004), 2.6013 (2003), 2.3468
(2002), note, during 1998, the exchange rate splintered into four
distinct rates; in January 1999 the government floated the guilder,
but subsequently fixed it when the black-market rate plunged; in
January 2004, the government introduced the Surinamese dollar as
replacement for the guilder, tied to a US dollar-dominated currency
basket

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Suriname

Telephones - main lines in use:
81,100 (2004)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
232,800 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: international facilities are good
domestic: microwave radio relay network
international: country code - 597; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 4, FM 13, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:
300,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (plus seven repeaters) (2000)

Televisions:
63,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.sr

Internet hosts:
126 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2000)

Internet users:
30,000 (2005)

Transportation Suriname

Airports:
47 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 5
over 3,047 m: 1
under 914 m: 4 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 42
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 36 (2006)

Pipelines:
oil 51 km (2006)

Roadways:
total: 4,304 km
paved: 1,130 km
unpaved: 3,174 km (2003)

Waterways:
1,200 km (most navigable by ships with drafts up to 7 m) (2005)

Merchant marine:
total: 1 ship (1000 GRT or over) 1,078 GRT/1,214 DWT
by type: cargo 1 (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Paramaribo

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