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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1991
PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES FOR JUNE 1991
RE-
WHILE DOMESTIC EXPORTS SHOWED A MARGINAL DECREASE IN JUNĖ, EXPORTS CONTINUED TO RISE MARKEDLY, ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONAL TRADE
BY (THURSDAY) FIGURES RELEASED
AND
DEPARTMENT.
TODAY
THE CENSUS
CENSUS AND
STATISTICS
MEANWHILE, IMPORTS RECORDED AN EQUALLY SIGNIFICANT GROWTH.
THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS, AT $18,812 MILLION IN JUNE, $33 MILLION OR 0.2% LOWER THAN A YEAR EARLIER.
WAS
MARKEDLY,
BY
ON THE OTHER HAND, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE $8,119 MILLION OR 23.7% TO $42,315 MILLION OVER THE SAME PERIOD.
TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS GREW BY $8,086 MILLION OR 15.2% OVER A YEAR EARLIER $61,127 MILLION IN JUNE.
MEANWHILE,
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY $11,571 MILLION 22.2% TO $63,592 MILLION.
AS
то
OR
OF TOTAL
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS WAS SMALLER THAN THAT IMPORTS, A VISIBLE TRADE DEFICIT OF $2,465 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 3.9% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN JUNE 1991.
THIS COMPARES WITH A SURPLUS OF $1,020 MILLION, EQUIVALENT 2.0% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, RECORDED IN JUNE 1990.
PUTTING THESE FIGURES IN PERSPECTIVE, THE VALUE EXPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1991, AT $104,925 MILLION, $4,387 MILLION OR 4.4% OVER THE FIRST HALF OF 1990.
OVER THE $50,016 MILLION
RE-EXPORTS
SAME PERIOD, THE VALUE OF OR 27.3% TO $233,113 MILLION.
TO
OF DOMÈSTIC INCREASED BY
INCREASED BY
A+
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR, $338,038 MILLION, WAS THUS $54,403 MILLION OR 19.2% HIGHER THAN IN THE FIRST HALF OF LAST YEAR.
MEANWHILE,
$359,221 MILLION.
IMPORTS GREW BY
$67,388 MILLION
OR
23.1%
To
A VISIBLE TRADE DEFICIT OF $21,183 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1991.
THE DEFICIT RECORDED IN THE FIRST HALF OF $8,198 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 2.8% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS.
6.9%
1990
WAS
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID RE-EXPORTS CONTINUED TO GROW MUCH FASTER THAN DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1991.
AS A RESULT, THE SHARK OF RE-EXPORTS IN TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED FURTHER, FROM 65% IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1994 TO 69% IN THE FIRST
OF
1991.
HALF
/THERE WAS