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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1993
FOR ALL COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION TAKEN TOGETHER, THE VALUE DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR JANUARY 1993 WAS $14,559 MILLION, 2.8% OVER IN JANUARY 1992.
10 CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE THE COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
OF
THAT
MAJOR
AS THE
EXTERNAL TRADE
FIGURES OF A SINGLE
AT MONTH
THE
NEW
BEGINNING OF EACH YEAR TEND TO BE VOLATILE BECAUSE OF THE LUNAR YEAR HOLIDAYS, IT IS MORE MEANINGFUL TO MAKE COMPARISONS OVER A LONGER PERIOD.
TAIWAN
COMPARING
THREE THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1993 WITH THE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1992, A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF 35% WAS RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE. THAT TO CHINA, AND THE
ALSO NETHERLANDS
INCREASED BY
8.0%, 7.6% RESPECTIVELY.
DECREASES HOWEVER,
AND
3.4%
WERK RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC FRANCE EXPORTS TO OTHER MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION: JAPAN (-13%),
UNITED KINGDOM (-13%), CANADA (-11%), THE UNITED STATES (-7.5%), THE (-5.6%) AND GERMANY (-2.5%).
TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS THE 10 MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
OF
OF
IN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1993, INCREASES IN THE VALUE WERE REGISTERED DOMESTIC EXPORTS OVER THE SAME PERIOD A YEAR AGO
ELECTRICAL FOR
AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, PARTS THEREOF (BY $1,960 MILLION OR 191%); OFFICE MACHINES AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $986 MILLION TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $141 MILLION OR 29%). OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF TEXTILES ALSO INCREASED BY $90 MILLION OR 2.3%.
THE
$1.087
AND OR 23%);
AND THE VALUE
OR
DOMESTIC ARTICLES 19%); EQUIPMENT
OVER THE SAME
OF VALUE PERIOD, DECREASES IN EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED CONSISTING OF MAINLY PRINTED MATTER (BY
MILLION CLOTHING (BY $516 MILLION OR 2.6%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS,
MILLION OR AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $481
AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 10%);
AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING
APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $273 MILLION OR 8.6%).
THE TOTAL VALUE OF IMPORTS WAS $63,350 MILLION IN JANUARY 1993, AN INCREASE OF 13% OVER THAT IN JANUARY 1992.
THE CHANGES
IN
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE TEN MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.
COMPARING
JANUARY 1993
WITH JANUARY 1992, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUR OF IMPORTS FROM ALL THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS: MALAYSIA (+38%),
ITALY GERMANY (+27%), THE UNITED STATES (+25%), (+21%), TAIWAN (+21%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+18%), SINGAPORE (+14%), CHINA (+8.3%), JAPAN (+6.0%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+4.4%).
WHEN COMPARISON IS MADE BETWEEN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1993 WITH THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1992, THE ORDER OF MAGNITUDE IN THE INCREASE OF IMPORT VALUE FROM MOST SUPPLIERS WAS THAT RECORDED FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1993.
SIMILAR ΤΟ
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