wood products, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals partners: US 15%, Argentina Imports: 1.185 billion (c.i.f., 1991) commodities: mainly corn, building materials, food and live animals 5.5%, beverages and tobacco 1.9% partners: principally other former Yugoslavian republics has led to large UK naval and air (but not territorial) disputes with Tunisia under discussion Climate: arid to semiarid; mild, wet winters and cool, wet winters and hot summers Terrain: mostly high plateaus and plains Natural resources: quartz, water, timber, hydroelectric potential, scenic beauty, small deposits of nonferrous metal ores (bauxite, copper, zinc, cobalt, lead, tobacco partners: France, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, UK, US Group of 11 Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia,
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