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MONDAY, JULY 13, 1992
TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 19% TO $76,582 MILLION.
MEANWHILE, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 21% TO
$81,518
MILLION.
THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS THIS YEAR, AT $693,973 MILLION, INCREASED BY 21% AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS, AT $85.830 MILLION, SHOWED VIRTUALLY NO CHANGE, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 31% TO $250,118 MILLION.
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 21% TO $335,948 MILLION WHILE THAT OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 21% TO $358,025 MILLION.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
COMPARING MAY 1992 WITH MAY 1991, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE (BY 35%), CHINA (BY
8%)+ THE UNITED STATES (BY 7%), CANADA (BY 6%) AND TAIWAN (BY 2%).
HOWEVER, SUBSTANTIAL DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO GERMANY (-27%), THE NETHERLANDS (-21%), FRANCE (-18%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (-17%},
COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS IN 1992 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1991, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE, CHINA, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND
INCREASED BY 13%, 13%, 11%, 6% AND 5%
RESPECTIVELY.
TAIWAN
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO GERMANY. THE NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND JAPAN DECREASED, BY 32%, 17%, 17%, 15% AND 2% RESPECTIVELY.
TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
FOR
COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS IN 1992 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1991, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $491 MILLION OR 7%); ELECTRIC CURRENT (BY $289 MILLION OR 80%); MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $288 MILLION OR 29%); CLOTHING (BY $146 MILLION OR 1%); AND TEXTILES (BY $76 MILLION OR 1%).
HOWEVER,
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DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1,548 MILLION OR 24%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $1,033 MILLION OR 12%1; AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES OF MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $108 MILLION OR 1%).
/THE CHANGES