- Important Facts about the Economy

Exports:

$3.993 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Exports - commodities: meat, rice, leather products, wool, fish, dairy products

Exports - partners: US 23.2%, Brazil 13.5%, Argentina 7.8%, Germany 4.2%, Mexico 4.1% (2005)
Imports: $4.532 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery, chemicals, road vehicles, crude petroleum

Imports - partners: Brazil 21.3%, Argentina 20.3%, Russia 8%, US 6.7%, Venezuela 6.3%, China 6.2%, Nigeria 5.9% (2005)
Debt - external :$11.4 billion (30 September 2006 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $NA
Electricity - exports: 19 million kWh (2004)
Electricity - imports: 2.348 billion kWh (2004)
Oil - exports NA bbl/day
Oil - imports NA bbl/day
Natural gas - exports: 0 cu m (2004 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 120 million cu m (2004 est.)