SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1990
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EXTERNAL TRADE PERFORMANCE IN DEC AND IN 1989
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN DECEMBER 1989, AT $96,947 MILLION. DECREASED BY 3 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS COMPARED WITH DECEMBER 1988, ACCORDING TO THE DETAILED FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN DECEMBER RELEASED TODAY (SUNDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 6 PER CENT TO $19.915 MILLION IN DECEMBER 1989. HOWEVER, RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 5 PER
ΤΟ CENT
ΤΟ 1989
EXPORTS MILLION, THUS BRINGING TOTAL
IN DECEMBER MILLION, WHICH SHOWED LITTLE CHANGE OVER DECEMBER 1988.
$29,586 $49,502
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, IMPORTS DECREASED BY 5 CENT TO 347,445 MILLION.
PER
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE YEAR 1989, AT $1,133,291 MILLION, INCREASED BY 14 PER CENT COMPARED WITH THE YEAR 1988.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC RE-EXPORTS EXPORTS INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT TO $224,104 MILLION, WHILE INCREASED BY 26 PER CENT TO $346,405 MILLION.
PER CENT ΤΟ THUS, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 16 $570,509 MILLION. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 13 PER CENT TO $562,781 MILLION.
1989 COMPARING DECEMBER
WITH DECEMBER 1988, THE VALUE OF PARTICULARLY THOSE UNITED
THE CENT),
DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MOST MAJOR MARKETS DECREASED,
CENT), AUSTRALIA TO THE USA (-14 PER
(-13 PER KINGDOM (-12 PER CENT), CANADA (11 PER CENT) AND JANPAN (-6 PER CENT). THOSE TO CHINA DROPPED BY 2 PER CENT.
EXPORTS HOWEVER, INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR VALUE OF DOMESTIC
THE NETHERLANDS, BY TO TAIWAN AND
53 PER CENT AND 7 PER CENT THE FEDERAL RESPECTIVELY. DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO
REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
SHOWED LITTLE CHANGE.
THE REPUBLIC UNITED KINGDOM 14 PER
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, IMPORTS FROM OF KOREA. JAPAN, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE AND ITALY DECREASED BY 26 PER CENT, 24 PER CENT, 17 PER CENT, CENT, AND 11 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN VALUE TERMS.
HOWEVER, THE VALUE SINGAPORE INCREASED BY 19 RESPECTIVELY.
OF PER
IMPORTS CENT,
FROM
CHINA SWITZERLAND, 9 PER CENT AND 7 PER CENT
AND
RE-EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, CANADA, THE USA,
KINGDOM INCREASED SINGAPORE AND THE UNITED
SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE
38 BY
PER CENT, 36 PER TERMS IN DECEMBER 1989 OVER DECEMBER 1988, CENT, 23 PER CENT, 22 PER CENT AND 17 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
THE VALUE
HOWEVER,
OF RE-EXPORTS ΤΟ CHINA AND DECREASED BY 17 PER CENT AND 7 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
AUSTRALIA
/COMPARING THE
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