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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1979
IN VOLUME TERMS TEXTILE EXPORTS TO USA MIGHT BE DOWN BY ABOUT 60 MILLION SQUARE YARDS COMPARED TO LAST YEAR - MAINLY DUE TO SLACK DEMAND FOR FABRICS AND YARN. BUT GARMENT EXPORTS WERE ONLY SLIGHTLY DOWN IN VOLUME TERMS. REACHING ABOUT 92 PER CENT OF THE LIMIT FOR COTTON AND MAN-MADE FIBRE APPAREL, AND ABOUT 82 PER CENT FOR WOOLLEN APPAREL.
+GARMENT EXPORTS WILL SHOW AN INCREASE IN VALUE TERMS, ALTHOUGH BY HOW MUCH IT IS TOO EARLY TO SAY, HE SAID.
+1 CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT AS EXPORTERS YOU MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT AND I AM CONFIDENT THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO, HE CONCLUDED.
RESULTS OF SEPTEMBER EMPLOYMENT SURVEY OUT
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ACCORDING TO THE LATEST EMPLOYMENT SURVEY CONDUCTED FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1979 BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT, MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT IN THAT PERIOD WAS ALMOST THE SAME AS THAT OF THE PRECEDING QUARTER.
A TOTAL OF 879 742 PERSONS WERE ENGAGED IN MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS AS AT SEPTEMBER 14, 1979. THIS REPRESENTED AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 2 400 PERSONS OR 0.3 PER CENT COMPARED WITH 877 384 PERSONS ENGAGED IN JUNE 1979. WHEN COMPARED WITH 791 073 PERSONS ENGAGED IN SEPTEMBER 1978, THERE WAS AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 88 700 PERSONS OR 11.2 PER CENT.
THERE WERE A TOTAL OF 42 199 MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS IN OPERATION IN SEPTEMBER 1979. THIS REPRESENTED AN INCREASE OF 701 ESTABLISHMENTS WHEN COMPARED WITH 41 498 ESTABLISHMENTS IN JUNE 1979- AND AN INCREASE OF 3 450 ESTABLISHMENTS WHEN COMPARED WITH 38 749 ESTABLISHMENTS IN SEPTEMBER 1978.
IN TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT, THE FIVE LARGEST MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES WERE WEARING APPAREL- ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPLIANCES AND SUPPLIES- TEXTILES PLASTIC PRODUCTS- AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS. A COMPARISON OF EMPLOYMENT IN THESE INDUSTRIES BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 1979 AND JUNE THIS YEAR IS AS FOLLOWS:-
CHANGE OF SEPT. 79 OVER JUNE 79
PERSONS ENGAGED IN
INDUSTRY GROUPS SEPT. 1978
PERSONS ENGAGED IN JUNE 1979
PERSONS ENGAGED IN SEPT. 1979
PERSONS ENGAGED CHANGE
%
WEARING APPARE.L
263 960
283 798
281 886
-1 912
-0.7
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