MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1992
EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR JULY RELEASED
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JULY THIS YEAR, AT $167,128 MILLION, INCREASED BY 20% IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH JULY LAST YEAR, ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS
DEPARTMENT.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 1% TO $21,380 MILLION WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 25% TO $60,782 MILLION.
TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 18% TO $82,162 MILLION. MEANWHILE, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $84,966 MILLION.
THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, AT $1,026 BILLION, INCREASED BY 23% AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 2% TO $128 BILLION WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 31% TO $370 BILLION.
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 22% TO $498 BILLION WHILE THAT OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $528 BILLION.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
IN
COMPARING JULY 1992 WITH JULY 1991, INCREASES WERE RECORDED THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA (+11%), SINGAPORE (+11%), THE UNITED STATES (+6%) AND CANADA (+2%).
(-7%),
HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FRANCE (-23%), GERMANY (-15%), TAIWAN (-13%), JAPAN THE NETHERLANDS (-6%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (-2%).
THE
COMPARING THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1992 WITH THE SAME IN 1991, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA, SINGAPORE,
UNITED STATES AND TAIWAN INCREASED BY 16%, 13%, 8%, 8% AND 3% RESPECTIVELY.
PERIOD
CANADA,
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO GERMANY, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, THE NETHERLANDS AND JAPAN DECREASED, BY 27%, 18%, 11% AND 3% RESPECTIVELY.
THE
12%,
TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF THE 10 MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
COMPARING THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1992 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1991, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR CLOTHING (BY $1,142 MILLION OR 3%); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $1,065 MILLION OR 10%); SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $443 MILLION OR TEXTILES (BY $77 MILLION OR 1%).
MACHINERY 32%);
AND
/HOWEVER, DECREASES