SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1991
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EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR MARCH RELEASED
TOTAL
MILLION,
MERCHANDISE TRADE IN MARCH 1991, AT $105,851 GRBW BY 8% IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH MARCH 1990, ACCORDING TO THE DETAILED FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN MARCH 1991 RELEASED TODAY (SUNDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 9% TO $14,980 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 10% TO $33,865 MILLION.
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 3% TO $48,845 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 12% TO $57,006 MILLION.
IN
20% AS
ON A QUARTERLY BASIS, THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1991, AT $315,535 MILLION, INCREASED BY COMPARED WITH THE SAME QUARTER IN 1990.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 4% TO $48,500 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 26% TO $104,360 MILLION.
THUS, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 18% TO $152,880 MILLION, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $162,675 MILLION,
EXPORTS ΤΟ 10 MAJOR
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUR OF DOMESTIC MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
COMPARING MARCH 1991 WITH MARCH 1990, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA AND THE USA BOTH RECORDED CONSIDERABLE DECREASES OF 27%. THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO TAIWAN, JAPAN, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND CHINA ALSO DECREASED BY 7%, 3%, 2% AND 1% RESPECTIVELY.
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE NETHERLANDS, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, SINGAPORE AND FRANCE INCREASED BY 11%, 9% AND 5% RESPECTIVELY.
THE
18%,
COMPARING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1991 WITH THE SAME QUARTER IN 1990, SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, SINGAPORE, THE NETHERLANDS, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND TAIWAN, BY 41%, 37%, 28%, 20% AND
14% RESPECTIVELY. THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA, FRANCE JAPAN ALSO INCREASED BY 10%, 10% AND 2% RESPECTIVELY.
AND
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA AND THE USA DECREASED BY 16% AND 14% RESPECTIVELY.
TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS Or THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
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