DAY, JAN ARY
OR TRAD
-LUE
3.6
234, WHILE
TRADE FIGURES FOR DECEMBER
ORTS IN DECEMBER 1985, AT $12 326 CENT OR $453 MILLION COMPARED WITH VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS GREW BY 4.9 PER CEM" 5 MILLION, ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONAL HELPES PUBLISHER "ODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS
DEPARTMENT.
P
1 TO $9
TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS GREW BY 4.3 PER CENT OR 3898 MILLION TO $21 1 MILLION IN DECEMBER 1985, MEANWHILE, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS GREW PY 6.0 PER CENT OR $1 250 MILLION TO $22 180 MILLION.
IN CONSEQUENCE, A VISIBLE TRADE GAP (THAT IS, THE PROPORTIC OF THE VALUE IMPORTS NOT COVERED BY THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORT
PER CENT WAS RECORDED IN DECEMBER 1985, COMPARED WIT-
CENT IN DECEMBER 1984.
F
FOR 1995 AS A WHOLE. $237 19
AND RE-EXPORT
COMPARED WITH 10-.
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS WAS
OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF $129 882 MILLION
THE VALUES OF TOTAL EXPORTS AND CF
RE-EXFORTE GREW BY 6.2 PER CENT AND 26,1 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. WHILE THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS FELL SV 5.8 PER CENT. OVER THE SIND, THE VALUE OF PORTS SPC BY 3.6 PER CENT TO $231 2 V
RESI. T. VISIBLE TRADE SURPLUS OF 12 732 MILLION, AniC- WAS EQUIVALENT TO 1.5 PER CENT OF THE VALUE OF PORTS. LAS PECORDED L 1985. THIS IN CONTRAST TO 1984 WHEN T- VISTLE TRDE ACCOUNT PECORDED A DEFICIT OF 11 929 MILLIO
1.9 PESTENT. REPO ENTING A TRADA SAD
OMMENTIN
+
TUBOS FIGURES, A GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT SAID TH
ECLINED FOR NINE CONSECUTIVE THS I TERMS O YEAR-ON-YEAR COMPARISONS, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS YCREASET AGAIN DECEMBER 1985, SUGGESTING THE DECLIE IN AN EXPORTS MIGHT HAVE BOTTOMED OUT.
THE
LOW :༣
ANWHILE, THE GROW-- PATI
RE-EXPORTS REMAINED RELATIVELY
OF DECIMPER, REFLECTING
REFLECTING THE EFFECT THE MEASURES IMPOSEL FOREIGN EXCHANGE SPEND NG.
WING DURING 1985 TO CONTROL
THE FOLLOWING TABLE PRESENTY
TRADE FIGURES FOR DECEMPE 1985 -
ERCHANDISE: DOMESTIC EXPORT:
RE-EXPURTS TOTAL EXPORTS IMPORT.
TRADE SAL ANCE
PROVISIONAL MERCHANDISE
: 312 326 MILLION : $ 465 MILLION
: 321 791 MILLION
: 522 180 MILLION
389 MILLION (IN DEFICIT)
/COMPARATIVE FIGURES