Greatest recipient of foreign investment in Central Europe. The principal branches of manufacture are transport equipment, metal and metal products. Privatization has begun. Forestry and the breeding of fish are also significant activities. The mining industry produces coal, hard coal, bauxite.
Manufacturing is based on metal, mechanical engineering, chemical and timber processing industries.
Most of Russia's trading partners are the states of the former USSR and the post-communist countries. To them Russia exports mainly fuel and energy. Slovakia 5.3 10.1 4.8 Subsistence agriculture traditionally dominated Slovakia's economy. Principal corps are wheat and other grains, sugarbeet. The forests which cover half of the country's area are important natural resources.