THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1991
AS A RESULT, THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX (EXPRESSED AS A RATIO TOTAL EXPORT PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX) DECREASED BY 1%.
OF
PRICES ARE BASED ON UNIT VALUES WHICH DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OR QUALITY OF GOODS TRADED, EXCEPT FOR SOME SELECTED COMMODITIES FOR WHICH SPECIFICATION PRICE INDEXES ARE AVAILABLE.
CARE SHOULD BE EXERCISED IN INTERPRETING THE CHANGES IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IN ANY INDIVIDUAL MONTH IN ISOLATION, IN VIEW OF THE FLUCTUATIONS THAT MAY OCCUR FROM MONTH TO MONTH.
LIKELY WHICH YEAR.
IN PARTICULAR, THE TRADE FIGURES FOR JANUARY THIS YEAR ARR ΤΟ BE AFFECTED BY THE TIMING OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS OCCURRED IN LATE JANUARY LAST YEAR, BUT IN MID-FEBRUARY THIS
COMPARING THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1991 WITH THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1990, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE- EXPORTS INCREASED BY 8% AND 32% RESPECTIVELY.
TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED 22%. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS GREW BY 32%.
BY
PRICES OF DOMESTIC
IMPORT PRICES.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 1% AND 2% RESPECTIVELY. INCREASED BY 3%.
EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF COMPARISON TO THE 12 JANUARY 1991 WITH THE 12 MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1990, DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 1% AND 19% SO THAT THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 11%. IMPORTS ROSE BY 14%.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS
RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 1% AND 3% THOSE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 2%.
MONTHS ENDING THE VOLUME OF
RESPECTIVELY, THE VOLUME OF
PRICES OF DOMESTIC RESPECTIVELY, WHILE
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DOMESTIC
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP FOR JANUARY 1991 AS COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1990 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF MOST COMMODITY GROUPS INCREASED IN JANUARY 1991 AS COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1990.
THESE INCLUDED ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+85%); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+27%); METAL ORES AND SCRAP (+23%); TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (+16%); TEXTILE FABRICS (+12%); WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+10%); AND METAL MANUFACTURES (+7%).
ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUMB WERE RECORDED IN TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (-37%); RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-25%); FOOTWEAR (-16%); AND TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (-10%).
THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF MOST COMMODITY GROUPS INCREASED IN JANUARY 1991 AS COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1990.
/THESE INCLUDED