TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1991
PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN JULY
THE
VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 2%, WHILE THAT
WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS GREW BY 26% IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1991 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990, ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
RELEASED
TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THERE WAS AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 17% IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 20% IN VOLUME.
THE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IS DERIVED FROM THE GROWTH IN TRADE VALUES, HAVING DISCOUNTED THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES.
AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS BOTH ROSE BY 2%, WHILE THOSE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 3%. THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX (EXPRESSED AS A RATIO OF TOTAL EXPORT PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX) SHOWED LITTLE CHANGE.
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.
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COMPARING THE MONTH OF JULY 1991 WITH JULY 1990, THE VOLUME DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 2%, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 30%. TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THE. VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS BY 19%. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS GREW BY 24%.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES EXPORTS ROSE BY 2% WHILE THOSE OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 3%. INCREASED BY 2%.
INCREASED
OF DOMESTIC IMPORT PRICES
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP FOR JULY 1991 AS COMPARED WITH JULY 1990 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF SOME INCREASED IN JULY 1991
1991 AS COMPARED WITH JULY
COMMODITY GROUPS 1990, INCLUDING
ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+51%); TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (+14%); TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (+13%); METAL MANUFACTURES (+8%); TEXTILE FABRICS (+7%); AND RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (+3%).
ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME WERE RECORDED IN FOOTWEAR (-39%); METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-24%); WATCHES AND CLOCKS (-22%); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (-13%); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (-6%); AND CLOTHING (-1%).
COMMODITY GROUPS THESE INCLUDED FOOTWEAR (+5%);
THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF MOST INCREASED IN JULY 1991 AS COMPARED WITH JULY 1990. TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (+6%); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+4%); CLOTHING (+4%); TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (+4%); TEXTILE FABRICS (+4%); METAL MANUFACTURES (+3%) TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (+2%); AND RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (+2%).
/HOWEVER, DECREASES