Suriname - Foreign trade
In 2000, exports of bauxite and alumina contributed $319 million, or about 62%, to total exports earnings. Other exports include gold, rice, shrimp, wood products, and bananas. On the black market, Suriname is a large exporter of cocaine, especially to the Netherlands. In 2000 Suriname's imports were distributed among the following categories:
| Consumer goods | 15.3% |
| Food | 15.9% |
| Fuels | 6.6% |
| Industrial supplies | 25.5% |
| Machinery | 19.2% |
| Transportation | 16.7% |
| Other | 0.8% |
The US is Suriname's most important trading partner, although Norway is Suriname's largest export market. In 2000, US exports to Suriname totaled $140 million. Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
| COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
| Norway | 117 | n.a. | n.a. |
| United States | 104 | 140 | -36 |
| Netherlands | 72 | 121 | -49 |
| France | 48 | 3 | 45 |
| Canada | 40 | 9 | 31 |
| United Kingdom | 31 | 5 | 26 |
| Japan | 21 | 41 | -20 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 18 | 90 | -72 |
| Netherlands Antilles | 7 | 9 | -2 |
| Panama | n.a. | 14 | n.a. |
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When europe took over Suriname what happened?who were the rulers