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AS A RESULT. THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX (EXPRESSED AS A RATIO OF THE TOTAL EXPORT PRICE INDEX TO THE IMPORT PRICE INDEX) ROSE BY FOUR PER CENT.
A COMPARISON OF FIGURES FOR THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1984 WITH THOSE FOR THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, SHOWED THAT DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS GREW BY 22 PER CENT AND 31 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN VOLUME TERMS, WHILE IMPORTS GREW BY 17 PER CENT. OVER THE PERIOD THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS, RE-EXPORTS AND IMPORTS ALL ROSE BY 15 PER CENT.
A COMPARISON OF FIGURES FOR THE 12 MONTHS ENDING SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR WITH THE 12 MONTHS ENDING SEPTEMBER 1983. SHOWED THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 22 PER CENT AND 30 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, THUS GIVING A 24 PER CENT INCREASE IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. MEANWHILE. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 17 PER CENT. PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS, RE-EXPORTS AND IMPORTS ALL ROSE, ON AVERAGE, BY 16 PER CENT.
PRICES ARE BASED ON UNIT VALUES WHICH DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OR QUALITY OF GOODS TRADED. CHANGES IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE ARE DERIVED FROM CHANGES IN TRADE VALUES, AFTER DISCOUNTING THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP ARE
UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
AS SEEN FROM TABLE 1, THE EXPORT PRICES OF NEARLY ALL COMMODITY GROUPS INCREASED, FROM EIGHT PER CENT FOR BOTH FOOTWEAR AND DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES TO 24 PER CENT FOR TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES. HOWEVER, DECREASES IN EXPORT PRICES WERE REGISTERED FOR METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-16 PER CENT), AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (-8 PER CENT).
THE DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME OF MOST OF THE COMMODITY GROUPS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY, THE MORE SUBSTANTIAL ONES BEING METAL ORES AND SCRAP (+57 PER CENT), ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+50 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+26 PER CENT), DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+25 PER CENT), RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (+24 PER CENT), FOOTWEAR (+17 PER CENT) AND CLOTHING (+15 PER CENT). HOWEVER, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME WERE RECORDED FOR TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (-35 PER CENT), TEXTILE FABRICS (-12 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (-5 PER CENT).
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF IMPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 2.
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AS PRESENTED IN TABLE 2. IMPORT PRICES OF NEARLY ALL END-USE CATEGORIES INCREASED AS COMPARED WITH SEPTEMBER 1983, RANGING FROM THREE PER CENT FOR CAPITAL GOODS TO 11 PER CENT FOR RAW MATERIALS AN SEMI-MANUFACTURES.
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