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MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1991
EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR JUNE RELEASED
GREW
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JUNE 1991, AT $124,719 MILLION, BY 19% IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH JUNE 1990, ACCORDING TO THE DETAILED FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN JUNE 1991 RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY) THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
OVER THE
OF
BY
DOMESTIC
SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE EXPORTS DECREASED BY 0.2% TO $18,812 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 24% TO $42,315 MILLION.
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 15% TO 961,127 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 22% TO $63,592 MILLION.
THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1991, AT $697,259 MILLION, INCREASED BY 21% AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990.
THE OVER
SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 4% TO $104,925 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF INCREASED BY 27% TO $233,113 MILLION.
RE-EXPORTS
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 19% TO $338,038 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $359,221 MILLION.
THUS,
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
EXPORTS то
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MAJOR
COMPARING JUNE 1991 WITH JUNE 1990, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY, BY 25%, 17%,
AND 16%,
RESPECTIVELY.
15%
THOSE TO FRANCE AND CHINA INCREASED BY 9% AND 4% RESPECTIVELY.
HOWEVER,
THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA, THE U.S.A. AND JAPAN DECREASED BY 11%, 10% AND 3% RESPECTIVELY.
1990,
EXPORTS
COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1991 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC TO THE FEDERAL, REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, SINGAPORE, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM AND CHINA, BY 32%, 29%, 21%, 17% AND 14% RESPECTIVELY.
+
THE
THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FRANCE, INCREASED BY 10%, 8% AND 4% RESPECTIVELY.
TAIWAN AND
JAPAN
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA AND THE U.S.A. DECREASED BY 14% AND 13% RESPECTIVELY.
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