The inhabitants of this tiny isolated economy exist on fishing, subsistence farming, handicrafts, and postage stamps. The fertile soil of the valleys produces a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including citrus, sugarcane, watermelons, bananas, yams, and beans. Bartering is an important part of the economy. The major sources of revenue are the sale of postage stamps to collectors and the sale of handicrafts to passing ships.
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honey; wide variety of fruits and vegetables; goats, chickens; fish
postage stamps, handicrafts, beekeeping, honey
15 (2004)
note: no business community in the usual sense; some public works; subsistence farming and fishing
revenues: 746,000 (FY04/05)
expenditures: 1.028 million (FY04/05)
1 April - 31 March
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South Africa 24%, Canada 20%, Germany 13%, Czechia 8%, El Salvador 5%, Spain 5% (2019)
leather footwear, gas turbine parts, precious metal ores, clothing and apparel, beef (2019)
N/A
Ecuador 43%, New Zealand 29% (2019)
crude petroleum, refined petroleum, food preparation products, plastics, iron fasteners (2019)
New Zealand dollars (NZD) per US dollar -
1.416 (2017 est.)
1.4279 (2016 est.)
1.4279 (2015)
1.4279 (2014 est.)
1.2039 (2013 est.)
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