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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1986
AS TRADE FIGURES FOR THE BEGINNING MONTHS OF A YEAR TEND TO BE AFFECTED BY SEASONAL FACTORS, IT IS MORE USEFUL TO CONSIDER FIGURES FOR THE LATEST THREE MONTHS TOGETHER. COMPARING THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1986 WITH THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1985, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 2 PER CENT, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 4 PER CENT, SO THAT FOR TOTAL EXPORTS A GROWTH OF 3 PER CENT WAS RECORDED IN VOLUME TERMS. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS ALSO ROSE BY 3 PER CENT.. ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS DROPPED BY 3 PER CENT AND 1 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, IMPORT PRICES DROPPED BY 1 PER CENT.
EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF COMPARISON TO THE 12 MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1986 WITH THE 12 MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1985, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 6 PER CENT, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 21 PER CENT, GIVING AN INCREASE OF 4 PER CENT IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 5 PER CENT.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 1 PER CENT, WHILE THAT OF THE DOMESTIC EXPORTS DROPPED BY 1 PER CENT AND IMPORTS DROPPED BY 3 PER CENT.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP FOR JANUARY 1986 AS COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1985 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
AS CAN BE SEEN FROM TABLE 1, DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES OF MOST COMMODITY GROUPS FELL IN JANUARY 1986 COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1985. THESE INCLUDED RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-9 PER CENT) TEXTILE FABRICS (-8 PER CENT); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (-8 PER CENT); TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (-5 PER CENT); METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-5 PER CENT) AS WELL AS METAL MANUFACTURES (-4 PER CENT).
INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES WERE, HOWEVER, RECORDED FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+7 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (+1 PER CENT).
THE DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME OF MANY COMMODITY GROUPS DECREASED IN JANUARY 1986 COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1985, THE MORE NOTABLE ONES BEING DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (-19 PER CENT); METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-18 PER CENT); RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-14 PER CENT); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (-12 PER CENT) AS WELL AS ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (-11 PER CENT).
HOWEVER, INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME WERE RECORDED FOR TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (+17 PER CENT) FOOTWEAR (+17 PER CENT); WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+ 15 PER CENT); TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (+9 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TEXTILE FABRICS (+4 PER CENT).
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF IMPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY FOR JANUARY 1986 AS COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1985 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 2.
/AS PRESENTED