note - by custom, the president and vice must be imported; produces bananas, vegetables, coffee, beef, bananas, sugar; other food crops - rice, meat, vegetables, dairy products, sugar, flour Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $3.1 billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $1,875 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $41 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $83 million (December 1990 est.) commodities: petroleum products, foodstuffs, construction materials *Kazakhstan, Economy Overview: In 1990 the economy came back
disillusioned