f $NA
(1997 est.)

Industries: tourism (Curacao, Sint Maarten, and Bonaire),
petroleum refining (Curacao), petroleum transshipment facilities
(Curacao and Bonaire), light manufacturing (Curacao)

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity--production: 1.4 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 1.4 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: aloes, sorghum, peanuts, vegetables,
tropical fruit

Exports: $268.2 million (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: petroleum products 98% (1993)

Exports--partners: US 28.6%, Honduras 6.4%, Belgium-Luxembourg 6%,
Italy 4.9%, Guatemala 4.5%, Costa Rica 4% (1996)

Imports: $1.4 billion (c.i.f., 1997)

Imports--commodities: crude petroleum 64%, food, manufactures
(1993)

Imports--partners: Venezuela 34%, US 16.4%, Mexico 15.5%,
Netherlands 5%, Italy 3.5%, Brazil 2.8% (1996)

Debt--external: $1.35 billion (1996)

Economic aid--recipient: $NA; note?the Netherlands provided a $97
million aid package in 1996

Currency: 1 Netherlands Antillean guilder, gulden, or florin
(NAf.) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Netherlands Antillean guilders, gulden, or
florins (NAf.) per US$1--1.790 (fixed rate since 1989)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: NA

Telephone system: generally adequate facilities
domestic: extensive interisland microwave radio relay links
international: 2 submarine cables; satellite earth stations--2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 9, FM 4, shortwave 0

Radios: 205,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 3 (in addition, there is a cable
service which supplies programs received from various US satellite
networks) (1997)

Televisions: 64,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 600 km
paved: 300 km
unpaved: 300 km (1992 est.)

Ports and harbors: Kralendijk, Philipsburg, Willemstad

Merchant marine:
total: 95 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 811,782 GRT/1,045,989
DWT
ships by type: bulk 2, cargo 26, chemical tanker 2, combination
ore/oil 3, container 10, liquefied gas tanker 4, multifunction
large-load carrier 19, oil tanker 4, passenger 1, refrigerated cargo
18, roll-on/roll-off cargo 6
note: a flag of co