US 27%, India 16%, China 7%, Japan 6%, Singapore
6% (2000 est.) note: as narcotics, teak, and gems - or the largely
unrecorded border trade with China and Thailand

Imports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Imports - commodities: machinery, transport equipment, construction
materials, food products, textile fabrics, petroleum products

Imports - partners: China 26%, Singapore 23%, South Korea 15%, Japan 10%,
Taiwan 10% (2000 est.)

Debt - external: $6 billion (FY99/00 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: $99 million (FY98/99)

Currency: kyat (MMK)

Currency code: MMK

Exchange rates: kyats per US dollar - official rate - 6.8581 (January
2002), 6.7489 (2001), 6.5167 (2000), 6.2858 (1999), 6.3432 (1998),
6.2418 (1997); kyats per US dollar - black market exchange rate - 435
(yearend 2000)

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

Communications Burma

Telephones - main lines in use: 250,000 (2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 8,492 (1997)

Telephone system: general assessment: meets minimum requirements for
local and intercity service for business and government; international
service is good domestic: NA international: satellite earth station -
1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 3 (1998)

Radios: 4.2 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 2 (1998)

Televisions: 320,000 (2000)

Internet country code: .mm

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 note: as of September 2000, Internet
connections were legal only for the government, tourist offices, and a
few large businesses (2000)

Internet users: 500 (2000)

Transportation Burma

Railways: total: 3,991 km narrow gauge: 3,991 km 1.000-m gauge
(2000 est.)

Highways: total: 28,200 km paved: 3,440 km unpaved: 24,760 km (1996)

Waterways: 12,800 km note: 3,200 km navigable by large commercial vessels

Pipelines: crude oil 1,343 km; natural gas 330 km

Ports and harbors: Bassein, Bhamo, Chauk, Mandalay, Moulmein, Myitkyina,
Rangoon, Akyab (Sittwe), Tavoy

Merchant marine: total: 35 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 382,386
GRT/582,084 DWT note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here
as a flag of convenience: Germany 5, Japan 4 (2002 est.) ships by type:
bulk 9, cargo 21, container 1, passenger/cargo 3, petroleum tanker 1

Airports: 80 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 8 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m:
2 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2001) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4

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