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. Financial services are well developed. Tourism is important. Has large areas of extremely fertile land, forming part of the 'black earth' belt and the country is self-sufficient in almost all aspects of agricultural production. Privatization was initiated.