FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1987
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TRADE STATISTICS FOR MAY PUBLISHED
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TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN MAY THIS YEAR AMOUNTED TO $62,301 CENT IN VALUE TERMS WHEN MILLION, REPRESENTING A GROWTH OF 10 PER COMPARED WITH MAY 1986, ACCORDING TO TRADE STATISTICS RELEASED BY CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT 1 DAY (FRIDAY).
COMPARED WITH MAY 1986, VRSTIC
THE
EXPORTS INCREASED IN VALUE WHILE RE-EXPORTS TERMS BY 33 PER CENT TO $16,136 MILLION IN MAY 1987
ΤΟΤΑΙ BRINGING $14,690 MILLION,
EXPORTS IN ROSE BY 49 PER CENT TO MAY 1987 TO $31,126 MILLION, WHICH WAS 40 PER CENT HIGHER THAN IN 1986.
IMPORTS INCREASED IN ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, TERMS BY 39 PER CENT TO $31,174 MILLION IN MAY 1987.
MAY
VALUE
TERMS DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE
GROWTH WAS SUBSTANTIAL
RECORDEL IN BETWEEN MAY 1986 AND MAY 1987,
THE NETHERLANDS O
PER DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN (+75 PER (ENT),
PER CENT} AND THE UNITED CENT), CHINA (+56 PER CENT), FRANCE (+19 KINGDOM (+41 PER CENT).
FROM REPUBLIC OF PER (+47
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, ALL MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED, ESPECIALLY THOSE FROM THE
PER (+56
CENT), CHINA KOREA (+82 PER CENT), SWITZERLAND CENT), SINGAPORE (+42 PER CENT), AND TAIWAN (+39 PER CENT).
UNITED RE-EXPORTS TO THE
KOREA, OF
GERMANY, THE REPUBLIC
OF
KINGDOM, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC
AND TAIWAN
THE U.S.A. INCREASED 101 PER CENT, 70 PER SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS BY 169 PER CENT,
RE- CENT, 58 PER CENT AND 45 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. ON THE OTHER HAND, EXPORTS TO INDONESIA DECREASED BY 9 PER CENT.
MAY
1987,
AT
3274.961
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JANUARY TO
THE MILLION, INCREASED BY 40 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS AS COMPARED WITH
THE VALUR OF SAME PERIOD IN 1986. ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 32 PER CENT TO $69,503 MILLION WHILE RE- THE VALUE EXPORTS INCREASED BY 51 PER CENT TO $65,430 MILLION. THUS,
IN VALUE TERMS BY 40 PER CENT TO $131,932 MILLION. IMPORTS INCREASED TERMS BY 39 PER CENT TO $140,029 MILLION.
COMPARED JANUARY TO MAY 1987 WITH THE SAME FIVE MONTHS IN 1986, VALUE TERMS. THE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN
JAPAN MARKETS WITH THE FASTEST GROWTH IN
CENT), GERMANY (+47 PER
EXPORTS INCLUDE! DOMESTIC (+72 PER CENT), CHINA (+70 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (+68 PER FRANCE (+48 PER CENT), AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF CENT), DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S GREW BY 15 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS.
LARGEST MARKET, THE
U.S.A.,
/IMPORTS IN