This is not a convertible currency outside Laos. Natural resources include timber, hydropower, gypsum, tin, gold and gemstones. Industries include tin and gypsum mining, electric power, timber, agricultural processing, textiles and garments. Main agricultural products include vegetables, corn, sweet potatoes, coffee, sugarcane, cotton, water buffalo, pigs, cattle, poultry and tobacco. Major exports are wood products, garments, electricity, coffee and tin.
Major imports are machinery and equipment, vehicles and fuel.