any 7.9%, Belgium
5.8%, Guatemala 5.4% (2000)

Imports: $2.7 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, industrial
raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs

Imports - partners: US 46.1%, Guatemala 8.2%, El Salvador 6.6%, Mexico
4.7%, Japan 4.6% (2000)

Debt - external: $5.6 billion (2001)

Economic aid - recipient: $557.8 million (1999)

Currency: lempira (HNL)

Currency code: HNL

Exchange rates: lempiras per US dollar - 16.0256 (January 2002), 15.9197
(2001), 15.1407 (2000), 14.5039 (1999), 13.8076 (1998), 13.0942 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Honduras

Telephones - main lines in use: 234,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 14,427 (1997)

Telephone system: NA international: Central American Microwave System

Radio broadcast stations: AM 241, FM 53, shortwave 12 (1998)

Radios: 2.45 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 11 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 570,000 (1997)

Internet country code: .hn

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 8 (2000)

Internet users: 40,000 (2000)

Transportation Honduras

Railways: total: 595 km narrow gauge: 318 km 1.067-m gauge; 277 km
0.914-m gauge (2000)

Highways: total: 15,400 km paved: 3,126 km unpaved: 12,274 km (1999 est.)

Waterways: 465 km (navigable by small craft)

Ports and harbors: La Ceiba, Puerto Castilla, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo,
Tela, Puerto Lempira

Merchant marine: total: 284 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 749,243
GRT/846,942 DWT note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here
as a flag of convenience: Argentina 1, Bahrain 1, Belize 1, British
Virgin Islands 1, Bulgaria 1, China 8, Costa Rica 1, Cyprus 1, Egypt 6,
El Salvador 1, Germany 1, Greece 18, Hong Kong 3, Indonesia 2, Italy 1,
Japan 7, Lebanon 4, Liberia 4, Maldives 2, Marshall Islands 1, Mexico
1, Nigeria 1, Norway 1, Panama 14, Philippines 1, Romania 2, Russia 1,
Saint Kitts and Nevis 3, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1, Singapore
24, South Korea 12, Spain 1, Syria 1, Taiwan 4, Tanzania 1, Trinidad and
Tobago 1, Turkey 2, Turks and Caicos Islands 1, United Arab Emirates 6,
United Kingdom 1, United States 5, Vanuatu 1, Vietnam 1, Virgin Islands
(UK) 1 (2002 est.) ships by type: bulk 20, cargo 166, chemical tanker
5, container 6, livestock carrier 1, passenger 3, passenger/cargo 3,
petroleum tanker 54, refrigerated cargo 12, roll on/roll off