THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1990
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EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR MAY RELEASED
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GREW
ACCORDING TO TODAY
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN MAY 1990, AT $110,209 MILLION, BY 17 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS AS COMPARED WITH MAY 1989, THE DETAILED FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN MAY 1990 RELEASED (THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
OF DOMESTIC
VALUE OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS INCREASED BY 6 PER CENT TO $18,826 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF EXPORTS ROSE BY 25 PER CENT TO $34,892 MILLION.
RE-
MILLION. MILLION.
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 18 PER CENT TO THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 16 PER CENT
ΤΟ
$53,718 $56,491
AT
THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JANUARY TO MAY 1990,
THE SAME $470,406 MILLION, INCREASED BY 7 PER CENT AS COMPARED WITH PERIOD IN 1989.
OVER
THE SAME
DOMESTIC
VALUE OF PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS DECREASED BY 2 PER CENT TO $81,693 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF RE- EXPORTS INCREASED BY 13 PER CENT TO $148,901 MILLION.
THUS, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 8 PER $230,594 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 6 PER $239,812 MILLION.
CENT ΤΟ CENT TO
THE
CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
EXPORTS
10 ΤΟ
MAJOR
TO
COMPARING MAY 1990 WITH MAY 1989, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS
OF GERMANY AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, INCREASED BY 65 PER CENT, 46 PER CENT, 24 PER CENT AND 10
DOMESTIC RESPECTIVELY.
EXPORTS TO THE NETHERLANDS ALSO
SLIGHT INCREASE IN VALUE TERMS BY 1 PER CENT.
CHINA PER CENT A RECORDED
JAPAN, THE 2 PER
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM AND THE USA DECREASED BY 6 PER CENT, 2 PER CENT, CENT AND 1 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
THE
DECREASED
COMPARING JANUARY TO MAY 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989, VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM AND CANADA
DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO BY 19 PER CENT AND 14 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
IN VALUE JAPAN, FRANCE, THE USA AND THE NETHERLANDS ALSO DECREASED
AND 2 PER CENT, TERMS
6 PER CENT, 4 CENT,
9
PER
PER
CENT
BY RESPECTIVELY.
HOWEVER,
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THE VALUE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO TAIWAN AND SINGAPORE, BY 60 PER CENT AND CENT RESPECTIVELY. THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY ALSO INCREASED BY 2 PER CENT AND CENT RESPECTIVELY.
OF
22
PER
AND
THE
1
PER
TABLE
2
THE CHANGES IN EXPORTS OF THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
ILLUSTRATES
THE
VALUE
OF
DOMESTIC
/COMPARING JANUARY