MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1990
COMPARING THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1990 WITH THE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1989, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY 6 PER CENT, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 1 PER CENT, WAS RECORDED THAT FOR TOTAL EXPORTS, A DECREASE OF 2 PER CENT VOLUME TERMS. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS DROPPED BY 7 PER CENT.
THREE
DECREAS..D
SO IN
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, PRICES OF DOMESTIC AND RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 2 PER CENT AND 6 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. PRICES INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT,
EXPORTS IMPORT
12 MONTHS ENDING VOLUME OF
EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF COMPARISON TO THE JANUARY 1990 WITH THE 12 MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1989, THE
WHILE THAT CHANGE LITTLE EXPORTS SHOWED DOMESTIC INCREASED BY 16 PER CENT, GIVING AN INCREASE OF 9 PER VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 7 PER CENT.
OF RE-EXPORTS CENT IN THE
EXPORTS RESPECTIVELY,
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, PRICES OF DOMESTIC AND RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT AND 6 PER CENT WHILE THOSE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 3 PER CENT.
OF DOMESTIC JANUARY
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP FOR JANUARY 1990 AS COMPARED WITH 1989 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
1989 METAL
AS CAN BE SEEN FROM TABLE 1, THE DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME OF MOST COMMODITY GROUPS DECREASED IN JANUARY 1990 COMPARED WITH JANUARY
PER APPLIANCES (-42 INCLUDING DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURES (-29 PER CENT); RADIOS OF ALL KINDS FOOTWEAR (-26 PER CENT); METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-24 PER CENT); YARN AND THREAD (-21 PER CENT); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS ARTICLES (-21 PER CENT) AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (-5 PER CENT).
CENT);
(-27 PER
CENT);
TEXTILE
AND
SIMILAR
IN WATCHES MADE-UPS
INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME WERE RECORDED AND CLOCKS (+6 PER CENT); CLOTHING (+6 PER CENT) AND TEXTILE AND RELATED ARTICLES (+2 PER CENT).
INCREASED
INCLUDED TEXTILE (+6 PER CENT);
PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF MOST COMMODITY GROUPS IN JANUARY 1990 COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1989. THESE YARN AND THREAD (+6 PER CENT); METAL MANUFACTURES TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (+6 PER CENT); TEXTILE (+5 PER CENT); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES CENT); CLOTHING (+3 PER CENT) AND FOOTWEAR (+2 PER CENT).
FABRICS (+5 PER
1N
HOWEVER, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES WERE RECORDED
(-1 PER METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-3 PER CENT) AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS
DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES; PRICES OF CENT). DOMESTIC EXPORT ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS; AND RADIOS OF ALL KINDS SHOWED LITTLE CHANGE.
THE
BY
1989 ARF
CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF IMPORTS END-USE CATEGORY FOR JANUARY 1990 AS COMPARED WITH JANUARY SHOWN IN TABLE 2.
/AS PRESENTED