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illion expenditures: $361.4 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1995) Industries: US military, tourism, construction, transshipment services, concrete products, printing and publishing, food processing, textiles Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity--production: 800 million kWh (1996) Electricity--production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996) Electricity--consumption: 800 million kWh (1996) Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996) Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996) Agriculture--products: fruits, copra, vegetables; eggs, pork, poultry, beef Exports: $86.1 million (f.o.b., 1992) Exports--commodities: mostly transshipments of refined petroleum products, construction materials, fish, food and beverage products Exports--partners: US 25% Imports: $202.4 million (c.i.f., 1992) Imports--commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, food, manufactured goods Imports--partners: US 23%, Japan 19%, other 58% Debt--external: $NA Economic aid--recipient: $NA; note?although Guam receives no foreign aid, it does receive large transfer payments from the general revenues of the US Federal Treasury into which Guamanians pay no income or excise taxes; under the provisions of a special law of Congress, the Guam Treasury, rather than the US Treasury, receives federal income taxes paid by military and civilian Federal employees stationed in Guam Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: US currency is used Fiscal year: 1 October--30 September Communications Telephones: 74,317 (March 1997) Telephone system: domestic: NA international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); submarine cables to US and Japan Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 0 Radios: 206,000 (1994) Television broadcast stations: 5 (1997) Televisions: 97,000 (1994 est.) Transportation Railways: 0 km Highways: total: 885 km paved: 675 km unpaved: 210 km note: there is another 685 km of roads classified non-public, including roads located on federal government installations Ports and harbors: Apra Harbor Merchant marine: none Airports: 5 (1998 est.) Airports--with paved runways: total: 4 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1998 est.) Airports--with unpaved runways: total: 1 under 914 m: 1
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