tion rate (consumer prices):
20%-30% per month (first quarter 1993)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
Exports:
$13.5 billion to outside of the successor states of the former USSR (1990)
commodities:
coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, chemicals, machinery
and transport equipment, grain, meat
partners:
NA
Imports:
$16.7 billion from outside of the successor states of the former USSR (1990)
commodities:
machinery and parts, transportation equipment, chemicals, textiles
partners:
NA
External debt:
$12 billion (1992 est.)
Industrial production:
growth rate -9% (1992)
Electricity:
55,882,000 kW capacity; 281,000 million kWh produced, 5,410 kWh per capita
(1992)
Industries:
coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport
equipment, chemicals, food-processing (especially sugar)
Agriculture:
grain, vegetables, meat, milk, sugar beets
Illicit drugs:
illicit producer of cannabis and opium; mostly for CIS consumption; limited
government eradication program; used as transshipment points for illicit
drugs to Western Europe

*Ukraine, Economy

Economic aid:
$NA
Currency:
Ukraine withdrew the Russian ruble from circulation on 12 November 1992 and
declared the karbovanets (plural karbovantsi) sole legal tender in Ukrainian
markets; Ukrainian officials claim this is an interim move toward
introducing a new currency - the hryvnya - possibly in late 1993
Exchange rates:
Ukrainian karbovantsi per $US1 - 3,000 (1 April 1993)
Fiscal year:
calendar year

*Ukraine, Communications

Railroads:
22,800 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)
Highways:
273,700 km total (1990); 236,400 km hard surfaced, 37,300 km earth
Inland waterways:
1,672 km perennially navigable (Pripyat and Dnipro River)
Pipelines:
crude oil 2,010 km, petroleum products 1,920 km, natural gas 7,800 km (1992)
Ports:
coastal - Berdyans'k, Illichivs'k Kerch, Kherson, Mariupol' (formerly
Zhdanov), Mykolayiv, Odesa, Sevastopol', Pirdenne; inland - Kiev (Kyyiv)
Merchant marine:
394 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,952,328 GRT/5,262,161 DWT; includes
234 cargo, 18 container, 7 barge carriers, 55 bulk cargo, 10 oil tanker, 2
chemical tanker, 1 liquefied gas, 12 passenger, 5 passenger cargo, 9
short-sea passenger, 33 roll-on/roll-off, 2 railcar carrier, 1
mu