TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1985
THIRD QUARTER EXPORTS STATISTICS RELEASED
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IN TERMS OF THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1985, THE SIX MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY GROUPS WERE WEARING APPAREL, ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS, TEXTILES, PLASTIC PRODUCTS, PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL EQUIPMENT, AND BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS.
THEY TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR 84 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL VALUE OF MERCHANDISE DOMESTIC EXPORTS.
INDUSTRIES HAVING RECORDED THE LARGEST INCREASES IN ABSOLUTE VALUE OVER THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1984 WERE TOBACCO (+$155 MILLION) NON-ELECTRICAL MACHINERY (+$133 MILLION), ELECTRICITY (+$61 MILLIÓN), PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL EQUIPMENT (+$60 MILLION), FOOTWEAR (+$46 MILLION), AND PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING (+$43 MILLION).
IN RELATIVE TERMS, INDUSTRIES WITH THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE INCREASES OVER THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1984 WERE TOBACCO (+157 PER CENT), ELECTRICITY (+101 PER CENT), BEVERAGES (+40 PER CENT) FOOTWEAR (+31 PER CENT), AND NON-ELECTRICAL MACHINERY (+29 PÉR CENT).
ON THE OTHER HAND, SIGNIFICANT DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS FROM THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1984 WERE RECORDED FOR ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS (-$2 233 MILLION OR -25 PER CENT), WEARING APPAREL (-$1 242 MILLION OR -14 PER CENT), TEXTILES (-$777 MILLION OR -11 PER CENT), PLASTIC PRODUCTS (-$680 MILLION OR -17 PER CENT), BASIC MÉTALS AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS (-$290 MILLION OR -16 PER CENT), AND CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (-$66 MILLION OR -16 PER CENT).
SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE DECREASES WERE ALSO OBSERVED IN AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY PRODUCTION (-81 PER CENT), RUBBER PRODUCTS (-33 PER CNET), NON-METALLIC MINERAL PRODUCTS (-32 PER CENT), TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT (-27 PER CENT), MINING AND QUARRYING (-26 PER CENT), AND ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS (-25 PER CENT).
THE ABOVE ARE SOME OF THE STATISTICS RELEASED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (TUESDAY) ON DOMESTIC EXPORTS ANALYSED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1985. THIS SERIES IS DERIVED BY RE-GROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS UNDER THE PRESENT EXTERNAL TRADE CLASS IF ICATION SYSTEM ACCORDING TO THE INDUSTRIES IN WHICH THESE MERCHANDISE ITEMS ARE NORMALLY PRODUCED. TRANSACTIONS IN GOLD AND SPECIE ARE EXCLUDED.
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