External debt: $428 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.) commodities: manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs partners: NZ 28%, American Samoa 23%, Germany 22%, US 6% (1987) External debt: $2.5 billion (1992 est.) commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum products partners: US 53%, UK 22%, Trinidad and Tobago Tokyo [US Embassy] Thailand Bangui [US Embassy] India Newfoundland Canada New Guinea Bougainville Strait Pacific Ocean Vatican City Independence: 11 February 1929 (from Italy) Constitution: Apostolic Constitution of
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