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DEMAND FOR GOODS IMPORTED FROM JAPAN INCREASED IN THE FIRST INCREASES HALF OF 1985 COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR. MERE REGISTERED FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND PEPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1 360 MILLION OR 60 PER CENT), ROAD VEHICLES (INCLUDING AIR CUSHION VEHICLES) (BY $979 MILLION OR 62 PER CENT), OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $757 MILLION OR 82 PER CENT), MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $358 MILLION OR 59 PER CENT), AND PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $326 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT). HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TEXTILES (BY $577 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT) AND MANUFACTURES OF METAL (BY $153 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT).
AS FOR IMPORTS FROM CHINA, LARGE DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TEXTILES (BY $1 336 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT) AND MEAT AND MEAT PREPARATIONS (BY $236 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT). HOWEVER, INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (BY $229 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT) AND NON-FERROUS METALS (BY $142 MILLION OR 92 PER CENT).
DECREASES IN IMPORTS FROM THE U.S.A. WERE MOSTLY OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $603 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT) AND TEXTILE FIBRES (OTHER THAN
ON WOOL TOPS) AND THEIR WASTES (BY $288 MILLION OR 62 PER CENT). THE OTHER HAND, INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN INORGANIC CHEMICALS (BY $233 MILLION OR 316 PER CENT), PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $170 MILLION OR 63 PER CENT) AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $142 MILLION OR 11 PER CENT).
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MEANWHILE, INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS FROM TAIWAN OF TEXTILE YARN, FABRICS, MADE-UP ARTICLES AND RELATED PRODUCTS (BY $783 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT) AND IN IMPORTS FROM SINGAPORE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $290 MILLION OR 181 PER CENT). HOWEVER, IMPORTS OF IRON AND STEEL FROM TAIWAN DECREASED (BY $77 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT), AS DID IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF FROM SINGAPORE (BY 151 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT).
THE CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE TEN MAJOR MARKETS ARE GIVE IN TABLE 5, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (BY $14 378 MILLION OR 140 PER CENT), U.S.A. (BY $1 100 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT), JAPAN (BY $491 MILLION OR 22 PER CET), MACAU (BY $227 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT), ITALY (BY $135 MILLION OR 116 PER CENT), FRANCE (BY $90 MILLION OR 48 PER CENT), CAN-w (BY $73 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $69 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO INDONESIA (BY $516 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (BY $372 MILLION OR 1 ̧Ñ AND TAIWAN (BY #191 MILLION OR EIGHT PER CENT).
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