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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1991
PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES FOR OCTOBER
CONTINUED RE-EXPORTS
TO GROW SUBSTANTIALLY WHILE DOMESTIC TO THE EXPORTS REGISTERED A MODERATE DECLINE IN OCTOBER, ACCORDING PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES RELEASED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
IMPORTS ALSO INCREASED, THOUGH AT A LESS RAPID RATE THAN IN THE PREVIOUS MONTHS.
THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN OCTOBER ROSE BY $9,259 MILLION 22.1% OVER A YEAR EARLIER TO $51,098 MILLION.
OR
HOWEVER,
THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN OCTOBER, AT MILLION, WAS $889 MILLION OR 4.0% LOWER.
$21,296
TAKING RE-EXPORTS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE TOTAL EXPORTS GREW BY $8,370 MILLION OR 13.1% OVER A YEAR EARLIER $72,394 MILLION IN OCTOBER.
OF
TO
SAME THE
PERIOD, OVER
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY $6,074 MILLION OR 9.6% TO $69,282 MILLION,
OF TOTAL
AS THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS WAS LARGER THAN THAT IMPORTS, A VISIBLE TRADE SURPLUS OF $3,112 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 4.5% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN OCTOBER 1991.
THE
RECORDED SURPLUS
IN OCTOBER 1990 WAS EQUIVALENT TO 1.3% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS,
$816
MILLION,
PUTTING THESE FIGURES IN PERSPECTIVE, THE VALUE OF IN THE FIRST
1991, AT 10 MONTHS OF
$430,055 MILLION, $95,522 MILLION OR 28.6% OVER THE FIRST 10 MONTHS OF 1990.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS $4,504 MILLION OR 2.5% TO $188,289 MILLION.
10 MONTHS
ROSE
RE-EXPORTS
BY
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS IN THE FIRST YEAR,
AT $618,344 MILLION, WAS THUS $100,026 MILLION OR 19.3% THAN IN THE FIRST 10 MONTHS OF LAST YEAR.
IMPORTS
$112,217
GREW BY
OF THIS HIGHER
21.6% TO
MILLION,
FIRST
GREW BY MEANWHILE,
OR MILLION MILLION. A VISIBLE TRADE $631,293
DEFICIT OF $12,949 EQUIVALENT TO 2.1% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN THE 10 MONTHS OF 1991.
THIS COMPARES
EQUIVALENT WITH A DEFICIT OF $758 MILLION,
FIRST 10 MONTHS OF 0.1% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, RECORDED IN THE 1990.
TO
то
A HIGH
IN
BASE
OF
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN COMMENTED THAT THE MODERATE DECLINE
OCTOBER
PARTLY DUE WAS DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN COMPARISON IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR.
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