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MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1988
NOVEMBER EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS RELEASED
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN NOVEMBER 1987,
1N VALUE TERMS GREW BY 30 PER CENT
VALUE STATISTICS TRADE ACCORDING TO STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (MONDAY).
AT $68,914 MILLION, COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER 1986, RELEASED BY THE CENSUS AND
COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER
IN
1986, DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED
1987 WHILE VALUE TERMS BY 15 PER CENT TO $17,076 MILLION IN NOVEMBER
TO $17,567 MILLION, BRINGING TOTAL RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 43 PER CENT
WAS 28 PER CENT EXPORTS IN NOVEMBER 1987 TO $34,644 MILLION, WHICH HIGHER THAN IN NOVEMBER 1986.
IMPORTS INCREASED IN
VALUE
ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, TERMS BY 32 PER CENT TO $34,270 MILLION IN NOVEMBER 1987.
1987 WITH THE SAME MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN
COMPARING THE PERIOD JANUARY TO NOVEMBER PERIOD IN 1986, DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO ALL VALUE TERMS.
THE WITHI
MARKETS THE
FASTEST GROWTH JN INCLUDED JAPAN (+57 PER CENT), CHINA (+56 PER CENT), CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (+43 PER CENT), AND GERMANY (+37 PER CENT).
EXPORTS DOMESTIC FRANCE (+44 PER THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
THE U.S. GREW
DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S LARGEST MARKET, BY 14 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS.
DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MOST MAJOR MARKETS
INCREASED
SIGNIFICANTLY ALTHOUGH THE
IN VALUE TERMS BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1986 AND NOVEMBER 1987, YEAR-ON-YEAR GROWTH RATES FOR SOME OF THE MARKETS HAVE SLOWED DOWN
RECENT MONTHS.
IN
ROSE BY 42 PER DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FRANCE
THE CENT,
UNITED KINGDOM BY 36 PER 38 PER
CENT, 30 PER CENT, AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY BY 24 PER CENT.
CENT, CHINA BY BY SINGAPORE
ON THE OTHER HAND, DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE
U.S.
DECREASED BY
1 PER CENT,
ALL MAJOR PERIOD
IMPORTS IN THE PERIOD JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1987 FROM SUPPLIERS INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE SAME IN 1986.
INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN SIGNIFICANT
(+54 PER (ENT), CHINA (+14 PER REPUBLIC OF KOREA
CENT), (+34 PER CENT). (+41 PER CENT), ITALY (+39 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.
IMPORTS
FROM
THE TAIWAN
FROM REPUBLIC OF
ALL
SUPPLIERS MAJOR
KOREA
(+55
PER
BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1986 AND NOVEMBER 1987, THE VALUE
ESPECIALLY
PER (+37
AND CENT)
(+34 PER CENT), THE U.S.
INCREASED, (ENT).
(+33
ITALY PER
OF IMPORTS THOSE FROM THE CHINA CENT).
SWITZERLAND
(+33 PER CENT).
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