WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1992
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EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR JUNE RELEASED
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JUNE THIS YEAR, AT $164,846 MILLION, INCREASED BY 32% IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH JUNE LAST YEAR, TO STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND DEPARTMENT.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS
VALUE OF INCREASED BY 12% TO $21,111 MILLION WHILE THAT OF ROSE BY 40% TO $59,114 MILLION.
ACCORDING STATISTICS
DOMESTIC RE-EXPORTS
TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 31% TO $80,225 MILLION. VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 33% TO $84,621 MILLION.
MEANWHILE,
THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF YEAR, AT $858,820 MILLION, INCREASED BY 23% AS COMPARED WITH THE PERIOD LAST YEAR,
OF
THE
THIS SAME
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC INCREASED BY 2% TO $106,941 MILLION WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS
BY 33% TO $309,232 MILLION.
EXPORTS INCREASED
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $416,173 MILLION WHILE THAT OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $442,646 MILLION.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
THE 22%), 10%).
10 MAJOR
IN
COMPARING JUNE 1992 WITH JUNE 1991, INCREASES WERE RECORDED VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA (BY 36%), THE NETHERLANDS (BY THE UNITED STATES (BY 17%), SINGAPORE (BY 13%) AND TAIWAN (BY
HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE EXPORTS TO FRANCE (-17%), GERMANY (-14%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (-6%) AND VALUE OF DOMESTIC JAPAN (-3%),
COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1992 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA, SINGAPORE, CANADA, THE UNITED 1991, STATES AND TAIWAN INCREASED BY 17%, 13%, 9%, 8% AND 6% RESPECTIVELY.
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO GERMANY, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, THE NETHERLANDS AND JAPAN DECREASED 12% AND 2% RESPECTIVELY.
BY 29%, 17%,
TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
THE
14%,
OF
1991,
OFFICE
OR
COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1992 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $1,098 MILLION 13%); CLOTHING (BY $731 MILLION OR 2%); MACHINERY PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $352 MILLION OR 30%); AND TEXTILES (BY
SPECIALISED FOR MILLION OR 3%).
$232
/HOWEVER, DECREASES