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MEANWHILE, INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY OF METALL IFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $30 MILLION OR 348 PER CENT) AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $25 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT) AND IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN OF JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $13 MILLION OR 18 PER CENT). HOWEVER, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $318 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT) AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $66 MILLION OR 45 PER CENT), AS DID DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING TO JAPAN (BY $21 MILLION OR 7 PER CENT).
IMPORTS
DEMAND FOR GOODS IMPORTED FROM JAPAN INCREASED IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1985 COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR. INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $878 MILLION OR 82 PËR CENT) ROAD VEHICLES (INCLUDING AIR CUSHION VEHICLES) (BY $565 MILLION OR 75 PER CENT), OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $443 MILLION OR 109 PER CENT), MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $190 MILLION OR 70 PER CENT) AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $141 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT). HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TEXTILES (BY $210 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT) AND MANUFACTURES OF METAL (BY $86 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT).
AS FOR IMPORTS FROM CHINA, INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TEXTILE FIBRES (OTHER THAN WOOL TOPS) AND THEIR WASTES (BY $179 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT) AND CLOTHING (BY $157 MILLION OR 8 PER CENT). HOWEVER, LARGE DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TEXTILES (BY $775 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT) AND MEAT AND MEAT PREPARATIONS (BY $135 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT).
INCREASES IN IMPORTS FROM THE U.S.A. WERE MOSTLY OF TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $224 MILLION OR 76 PER CENT), OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $154 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT), AND MANUFACTURES OF METAL (BY $72 MILLION OR 101 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN TEXTILE FIBRES (OTHER THAN WOOL TOPS) AND THEIR WASTES (BY $134 MILLION OR 53 PER CENT) AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $125 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT).
MEANWHILE, INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS FROM TAIWAN OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $454 MILLION OR 84 PER CENT) AND IN IMPORTS FROM SINGAPORE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $216 MILLION OR 288 PER CENT). HOWEVER, IMPORTS OF VEGETABLES AND FRUIT FROM TAIWAN DECREASED (BY $22 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT), AS DID IMPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS FROM SINGAPORE (BY $82 MILLION OR 5 PER CENT).
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