FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1983
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JANUARY PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE
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THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ROSE BY FOUR PER CENT AND THOSE OF RE-EXPORTS BY TWO PER CENT SO THAT FOR TOTAL EXPORTS, PRICES WERE UP BY FOUR PER CENT IN JANUARY 1983, AS COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1982, ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
MEANWHILE, THE PRICES OF IMPORTS ROSE BY THREE PER CENT. AS A RESULT, THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX (EXPRESSED AS A RATIO OF THE TOTAL EXPORT PRICE INDEX TO THE IMPORT PRICE INDEX) INCREASED BY ONE PER CENT.
THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DROPPED BY ONE PER CENT BUT THAT OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY NINE PER CENT SO THAT FOR TOTAL EXPORTS THE VOLUME WAS UP BY TWO PER CENT. MEANWHILE, THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 12 PER CENT.
FOR THE TWELVE-MONTH PERIOD TO JANUARY 1983, AS COMPARED WITH THE 12 MONTHS TO JANUARY 1952, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ROSE BY SIX PER CENT, THOSE OF IMPORTS BY FIVE PER CENT AND THOSE OF RE-EXPORTS BY NINE PER CENT. THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY TWO PER CENT AND THAT OF RE-EXPORTS BY ONE PER CENT, GIVING A TWO PER CENT DECREASE IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. BUT A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS WAS RECORDED.
PRICES ARE BASED ON UNIT VALUES WHICH DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OR QUALITY OF GOODS TRADED, WHILE CHANGES IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE ARE DERIVED FROM CHANGES IN TRADE VALUES, AFTER DISCOUNTING THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGE, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP ARE SHOWN BELOW:
PERCENTAGE CHANGES COMPARING JANUARY 1983 WITH JANUARY 1982
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VOLUME
CLOTHING (EXCEPT FUR)
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TEXTILE FABRICS
TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD
+ 8 +16
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7NM
+6
3
+20
TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND
RELATED ARTICLES
7
RADIOS OF ALL KINDS
-14
ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS
+51
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8
-14
2
-12
+14
+32
FOOTWEAR
-31
- 2
-30
METAL MANUFACTURES
+15
+10
+ A
METAL ORES AND SCRAP
+10
+31
WATCHES AND CLOCKS
-12
+39
TRAVEL GOODS HANDBAGS AND
SIMILAR ARTICLES
-19
+12
-28
DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES
ALL COMMODITIES
3
+
24
INSIGNIFICANT
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