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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1989
1989 WITH THOSE IN SOME 1NCREASES: FUELS GOODS (+4 PER MATERIALS AND
COMPARING THE IMPORT PRICES IN SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 1988, ALL END-USE CATEGORIES SHOWED
+15 PER CENT); CONSUMER GOODS (+6 PER CENT); CAPITAL
PER (+3 CENT);
CENT) AND RAW FOODSTUFFS
SEMI-MANUFACTURES (+1 PER CENT).
OF RE-EXPORTS WITH SEPTEMBER 1988
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME BY END-USE CATEGORY FOR SEPTEMBER 1989 COMPARED ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.
PER
TABLE 3, IN AS DEPICTED
VOLUME RE-EXPORT THE
OF FUELS GOODS ALSO INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY BY 126 PER CENT, THAT OF CONSUMER
THE
OF INCREASED BY 31
HOWEVER, CENT.
VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES AND
GOODS CAPITAL FOODSTUFFS, RAW MATERIALS DECREASED, BY 15 PER CENT, 11 PER CENT AND 1 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
IN
END-USE CATEGORIES INCREASED
FUELS (+14 PER CENT); CENT); CONSUMER GOODS CENT) AND FOODSTUFFS (+4 PER
PER (+6
PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS OF ALL SEPTEMBER 1989 COMPARED WITH SEPTEMBER 1988: RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES (+6 PER CENT); CAPITAL GOODS (+5 PER CENT).
1989 ISSUE OF FURTHER DETAILS ARE CONTAINED IN THE SEPTEMBER
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MISSION INDEXES
TABLE 1: CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP
COMPARING SEP 1989
WITH SEP 1988
COMPARINO JAN-SEP 1989
WITH JAN-SEP 1988
UNIT
COMMODITY GROUP
VALUR
VALUE
VOLUME
%
%
X
VALUE %
UNIT VALUE
VOLUME
CLOTHING
2
8
2
5
TEXTILE FABRICS
15
2
13
11
11
TEXTILE YARN AND
THREAD
11
5
5
12
2
TEXTILE MADE-UPS
AND RELATED
ARTICLES
-11
-18
-9
7
-14
/RADIOS OF