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THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1993

'THROUGHOUT ITS IMPLEMENTATION,

AND THE

WOULD BE MONITORED INTERNALLY, PUBLISHED ANNUALLY, HE ADDED.

+

THE PERFORMANCE RESULT OF

STANDARDS

WHICH WOULD BC

DEFINE THE

IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR, THE POLICE MADE A PLEDGE TO RESPONSE TIME TO ALL REAL EMERGENCY 999 CALLS AND THE TIME REQUIRED TO PROCESS A CERTIFICATE OF NO CRIMINAL CONVICTION.

EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY

RELEASED

BY COUNTRY

THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (TIIURSDAY) DETAILED STATISTICS OF EXTERNAL TRADE WITH BREAKDOWN AND COMMODITY FOR FEBRUARY.

THE

COMPARING FEBRUARY WITH THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR, THE VALUE OF TAIWAN RECORDED TO MALAYSIA, CHINA, SINGAPORE AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS SIGNIFICANT INCREASES OF 43%, 33%, 21% AND 17% RESPECTIVELY.

OF

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO OTHER MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION: THE UNITED KINGDOM (-29%), GERMANY (-25%), THE NETHERLANDS (-22%), CANADA (−22%), THE UNITED STATES (-19%) AND JAPAN (-5.0%).

OF

FOR ALL COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION TAKEN TOGETHER, THE VALUE

OVER FEBRUARY DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR FEBRUARY 1993 DECREASED BY 3.9% 1992 TO $16,807 MILLION.

10 MAJOR

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

COMPARING

FIRST THE

PERIOD

LAST YEAR, THE

SINGAPORE, CHINA

AND

TWO MONTHS OF THIS YEAR VALUE

EXPORTS OF DOMESTIC TAIWAN INCREASED BY 31%, 26%,

WITH THE SAME

TO MALAYSIA, 19% AND

17%

RESPECTIVELY.

HOWEVER,

DECREASES WERE

RECORDED IN THE

OF VALUE

DOMESTIC UNITED KINGDOM (-12%), THE

EXPORTS TO OTHER MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION: THE (-19%), GERMANY (-18%), CANADA (-15%), THE NETHERLANDS UNITED STATES (-7.5%) AND JAPAN (-6.9%).

OF

FOR ALL COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION TAKEN TOGETHER, THE VALUE DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 1993 WAS $31,366 MILLION, A SLIGHT DECREASE OF 0.9% AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992.

TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTA THE 10 MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

of

IN

FOR

PARTS

COMPARING THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD 1992,

INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL THEREOF (BY $820 MILLION OR 33%); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC

MACHINES PROCESSING

(BY $327 MILLION OR

TEXTILES 13%); $311 MILLION OR 16%); AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $271 MILLION OR 16%).

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