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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1990
THE EXISTING FARE SCALE AND THE NEW FARE SCALE FOR GMB
FOLLOWS:
JOURNEY
DISTANCE NOT
EXISTING SCALE
EXCEEDING (KM)
($)
7
REVISED SCALE
($)
2
1.30
3
1.70
3.00
5
2.50
4.00
7
3.50
5.00
8
4.00
5.50
10
4.50
6.00
11
5.00
6.50
15
5.50
7.00
20
8.00
9.50
30
12.00
12.00
40
15.00
15.00
50
18.00
18.00
PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES FOR AUGUST RELEASED
ARE AS
IN AUGUST,
THE PERFORMANCE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS REMAINED WEAK WHILE RE-EXPORTS CONTINUED TO RISE SUBSTANTIALLY OVER A YEAR EARLIER.
RETAINED IMPORTS ALSO SHOWED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE SAME PERIOD.
OVER THE
THESE ARE SHOWN IN THE PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES RELEASED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
AUGUST 1990, AT $21, 128 THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN
IN AUGUST 1989. MILLION, WAS $96 MILLION OR 0.5 PER CENT LESS THAN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS, HOWEVER, INCREASED BY $6,478 MILLION OR PER CENT TO $38,304 MILLION.
20.4
OF
TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUR
A YEAR TOTAL EXPORTS ROSE BY $6,382 MILLION OR 12.0 PER CENT OVER EARLIER, TO $59,432 MILLION IN AUGUST 1990.
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS GREW BY $7,730 MILLION OR 16.1 OVER A YEAR EARLIER, TO $55,706 MILLION IN AUGUST 1990.
PER CENT
IMPORTS,
CENT
AS THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS WAS LARGER THAN THAT OF A VISIBLE TRADE SURPLUS OF $3,726 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 6.7 PER OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN AUGUST 1990.
/THIS COMPARES