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Agriculture: coconuts, copra, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes

Exports: $600,000 (f.o.b., 1989) commodities: trochus (type of shellfish), tuna, copra, handicrafts partners: US, Japan

Imports: $24.6 million (c.i.f., 1989) commodities: NA partners: US

External debt: about $100 million (1989)

Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $NA note: the compact of "free association" with the US, entered into after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, provides Palau with $500 million in US aid over 15 years in return for furnishing military facilities

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September

Transportation --------------

Railways: 0 km

Highways: total: 61 km paved: 36 km unpaved: 25 km

Ports: Koror

Merchant marine: none

Airports: total: 3 with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1 with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 2 (1995 est.)

Communications --------------

Telephones: 1,500 (1988 est.)

Telephone system: domestic: NA international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0

Radios: 9,000 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 2

Televisions: 1,600 (1993 est.)

Defense -------

Branches: NA

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

Defense note: defense is the responsibility of the US

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@Palmyra Atoll -------------

(territory of the US)