TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1979
FOOD AND LIVE ANIMALS
CHIEFLY FOR FOOD
736
693
43
6
MISCELLANEOUS MANU-—
FACTURED ARTICLES
(MAINLY WATCHES AND
CLOCKS AND ARTICLES OF
APPAREL)
652
505
+ 147
• 29
CHEMICALS AND RELATED
PRODUCTS
397
301
96
+ 32
BY COMMODITY INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS OF TEXTILES ($860 MILLION. + 49 PER CENT), ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES ($345 MILLION, +46 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS ($218 MILLION, 31 PER CENT), TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT ($196 MILLION, 59 PER CENT), AND IRON AND STEEL ($155 MILLION, 26 PER CENT).
+
DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN ARRIVALS OF CEREALS AND CEREAL PREPARATIONS ($98 MILLION, EIGHT PER CENT), AND TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES ($33 MILLION, - 19 PER CENT).
RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 49 PER CENT IN JANUARY 1979 AND THIS WAS MAINLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE INCREASED SHIPMENTS OF GOODS TO JAPAN ($205 MILLION, + 49 PER CENT), TAIWAN ($128 MILLION, 60 PER CENT), U.S.A. ($109 MILLION, +34 PER CENT), REPUBLIC OF KOREA ($58 MILLION, + 55 PER CENT) AND THE PHILIPPINES ($56 MILLION, 90 PER CENT).
ACTIVE DEMAND WAS RECORDED FOR PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI- PRECIOUS STONES ($149 MILLION, + 20 PER CENT), TEXTILE FABRICS ($105 MILLION, + 168 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS ($80 MILLION, + 43 PER CENT), AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES ($70 MILLION,79 PER CENT).
THE TRADE INDEX NUMBERS FOR DECEMBER 1978 AND THE YEAR 1978 (IN BRACKETS) WERE AS FOLLOWS:-
1973 - 100
VALUE INDEX
UNIT VALUE
INDEX
QUANTUM INDEX
DOMESTIC
EXPORTS
265 (209)
145 (139)
183 (150)
IMPORTS
282 (217) (217)
149 (143)
189 (152)
THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX FOR DECEMBER 1978 WAS 97 (97).