SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1989
MERCHANDISE TRADE BY AIR IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989
MILLION THE SAME AIRBORNE (SATURDAY 1
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE BY AIR WAS VALUED AT $111,019 IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989, 20 PER CENT HIGHER THAN THAT IN PERIOD IN 1988, ACCORDING TO THE SUMMARY STATISTICS ON MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 RELEASED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
IMPORTS CENT
IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989, AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS, RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 12 PER CENT, 21 PER CENT AND 28 PER RESPECTIVELY IN VALUE OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1988.
AND
RE-EXPORTS
AS
AND
THEIR SHARES IN TOTAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS, IMPORTS AND WERE 29 PER CENT,
PER 20 PER CENT AND 16
CENT RESPECTIVELY, COMPARED TO THE CORRESPONDING SHARES OF 27 PER CENT, 21 PER CENT 17 PER CENT IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1988.
IN
152,411
AND
OF TERMS
*To IMPORTS AMOUNTED WEIGHT, AIRBORNE TONNES, WHILE TOTAL AIRBORNE EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS RE-EXPORTS) AMOUNTED TO 186,380 TONNES, WHICH WERE 9 PER CENT PER CENT RESPECTIVELY HIGHER THAN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1988.
AND 5
AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN
TABLE 1.
IN
INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE DOMESTIC SAME EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 OVER THE
(+22 TAIWAN PERIOD IN 1988, PARTICULARLY JAPAN (+29 PER CENT),
AND CENT),
PER
CENT} (+21
CENT), SINGAPORE (+16 PER NETHERLANDS (+15 PER CENT).
CANADA
PER
THE
11
REPUBLIC (THE SECOND CENT PER
AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE USA AND THE FEDERAL
MARKETS THE LARGEST AND THE THIRD LARGEST
INCREASED BY ALSO
CENT AND RESPECTIVELY IN VALUE.
OF BEING
GERMANY,
JAPAN),
OR
7 PER
VALUE OF
OFFICE
ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN THE AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $1,182 MILLION APPLIANCES AND 14 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND
PARTS
PER CENT); THEREOF (BY $441 MILLION OR 16 ELECTRICAL MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $419 MILLION
PER CENT);
ARTICLES, AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED
WARES, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' JEWELLERY, ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS (BY $398 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT).
12 MAINLY
INCLUDING AND OTHER
(BY
DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL $46 MILLION
POWER OR 79 PER CENT); $33 I BY EQUIPMENT
MILLION OR 36 PER CENT); MILLION OR 23 PER CENT).
SCRAP
GENERATING
AND
MACHINERY
FOOTWEAR
AND (BY $22
/FURTHER ANALYSES