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TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1992
PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES FOR APRIL PUBLISHED
RE-EXPORTS RECORDED A FURTHER MARKED INCREASE LAST MONTH OVER A EARLIER, WHILE DOMESTIC EXPORTS SHOWED A DECLINE. IMPORTS CONTINUED TO RISE SIGNIFICANTLY.
YEAR
THESE ARE SHOWN IN THE PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY $11,816 MILLION OR 28.5% OVER A YEAR EARLIER TO $53,330 MILLION IN APRIL.
ON THE OTHER HAND, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN APRIL, $17,718 MILLION, WAS $464 MILLION OR 2.6% LOWER.
TAKING RE-EXPORTS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE TOTAL EXPORTS GREW BY $11,352 MILLION OR 19.0% OVER A YEAR EARLIER $71,048 MILLION.
AT
OF
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MEANWHILE, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY $12,734 MILLION OR 19.3% TO $78,551 MILLION.
THAT
AS THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS FOR THE MONTH WAS SMALLER THAN OF
OF TOTAL IMPORTS, A VISIBLE TRADE DEFICIT
$7,503 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 9.6% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED LAST MONTH.
THIS COMPARED WITH THE DEFICIT OF $6,121 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 9.3% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, RECORDED IN APRIL 1991.
THUS IT
APPEARED THAT THE RELATIVELY DEFICIT IN APRIL WAS MAINLY SEASONAL.
IN
LARGE VISIBLE
TRADE
FIRST THE
FOUR MONTHS OF 1992, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS $192,942 INCREASED BY $47,069 MILLION OR 32.3% OVER A YEAR EARLIER TO MILLION.
MILLION
THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AMOUNTED TO $66,424 MILLION, $259
OR 0.4% LESS THAN THAT IN THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
TAKING RE-EXPORTS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE TOTAL EXPORTS IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1992, AT $259,366 WAS $46,810 MILLION OR 22.0% HIGHER THAN A YEAR EARLIER.
THE
$276,507
OF
MILLION,
VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY $48,015 MILLION OR 21.0% MILLION.
A VISIBLE TRADE DEFICIT OF $17,141 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO
MONTHS THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN THE FIRST FOUR
OF 1992.
TO
6.2%
OF
/THIS COMPARED