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SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN IMPORT VOLUME WERE NOTED FOR RAW COTTON; LEATHER AND DRESSED FUR SKINS; WOOL AND OTHER ANIMAL HAIR; AND THERMIONIC CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES. DIODES, TRANSISTORS AND ELECTRICAL MICROCIRCUITS.
HOWEVER, CONSIDERABLE DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THE IMPORT VOLUME OF MAN-MADE FIBRES; CLAY AND REFRACTORY CONSTRUCTION
MATERIALS, BUILDING MATERIALS, AND SO ON EXCEPT GLASS; AND YARN OF MAN-MADE FIBRES.
IMPORTS OF
FUELS INCREASED BY 21% IN VOLUME IN JULY 1992 AS COMPARED WITH JULY 1991.
AS REGARDS CAPITAL GOODS, THE IMPORT VOLUME INCREASED BY 41% IN JULY 1992 OVER JULY 1991.
NOTABLE INCREASES
WERK RECORDED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY; OTHER INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY MACHINERY AND ELECTRICAL MACHENERY); AND SOLEENTIFIC MEASURING AND CONTROLLING INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS.
1992
IMPORT VOLUME OF (OTHER THAN TEXTILE
MEDICAL, OPTICAL +
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THE IMPORT PRICES OF MOST END-USE CATEGORIES INCREASED IN JULY OVER JULY 1991: CAPITAL GOODS (+4%); CONSUMER GOODS (+4%); FOODSTUFFS (+1%) AND FUELS (+1%).
HOWEVER, THE IMPORT PRICES OF RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI- MANUFACTURES DECREASED BY 2%.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.
THE VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS OF CAPITAL GOODS HAD GROWN SUBSTANTIALLY IN JULY 1992 COMPARED WITH JULY 1991 (BY 61%).
THAT OF CONSUMER GOODS; RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES; AND FOODSTUFFS ALSO REGISTERED INCREASES, BY 25%, 12% AND 4% RESPECTIVELY. HOWEVER, THE VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS OF FUELS DECREASED BY
32%.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS OF FUELS, CONSUMER GOODS AND CAPITAL GOODS INCREASED BY 5%, 2% AND 1%
RESPECTIVELY.
THE RE-EXPORT PRICES OF RAW MATERIALS AND AND FOODSTUFFS DECREASED BY 3% AND 1% RESPECTIVELY.
SEMI-MANUFACTURES;
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