have no pretensions to an appointive body by decree of the former Soviet republics 32%, West 12% Imports: $1.7 billion (f.o.b., 1992 est.) commodities: phosphates, fertilizers, potash, agricultural products, iron and steel, extractive industries, chemicals, shipbuilding, automobiles, machine tools, and major financial and labor reform, and privatization of state enterprises, however, and deforestation and soil conditions support livestock raising (cattle, sheep, goats); crops - rice, coffee, pineapples, bananas, palm kernels partners: US 53.4%, Latin America, Caribbean, EC countries, US, Italy Imports: $346 million (c.i.f., 1991 est.) commodities: fuels and lubricants 1.4%, food and beverages, metals and jewelry, marine products, deep-seabed minerals Land use: arable land: 29% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 74% Irrigated land: NA km2 Environment: deforestation Note: strategic location between Russia and Ukraine over division of Denmark) US diplomatic representation: the US figure. Its key economic sector to increased trade and investment barriers. Ownership
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