TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1993
VOLUME AND PRICE MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN MARCH
OF THIS THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST QUARTER
PERIOD LAST YEAR WAS VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME YEAR, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS RECORDED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF 26%, ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
OF
TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VOLUME TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 20%. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 19% IN VOLUME.
THE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IS DERIVED FROM THE GROWTH IN TRADE VALUES WITH THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES BEING DISCOUNTED.
RE-
OP COMPARISON, AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE ABOUT THE SAME WHILE THOSE OF EXPORTS DECREASED BY 1.1%. IMPORT PRICES DECREASED BY 1.5%.
INDICES,
FOR CERTAIN
PRICE CHANGES ARE REFLECTED BY CHANGES IN UNIT VALUE ARE
VALUES BASED ON AVERAGE UNIT COMPILED
OR, COMMODITIES, BASED ON SPECIFIC PRICE DATA.
WHICH
EXPORT
THE
THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX, DEFINED AS THE RATIO OF TOTAL PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX, INCREASED SLIGHTLY BY 0.8% IN FIRST QUARTER OF 1993 AS COMPARED WITH SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
MARCH TAKING MARCH 1993 ALONE AND COMPARING WITH VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 1.9% WHILE THAT OF INCREASED BY 24%.
1992, RE-EXPORTS
THE
THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 20%. IMPORTS GREW BY 19%.
THE VOLUME OF
BY
PRICES OF DOMESTIC
0.3%
0.4%
AND
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE
DECREASED EXPORTS
RE-EXPORTS
SLIGHTLY AND RESPECTIVELY. IMPORT PRICES DECREASED BY 1.2%.
GROUPS WHICH
EXPORTS (+15%);
COMPARING MARCH 1993 WITH MARCH 1992, COMMODITY RECORDED SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC COMPONENTS INCLUDED METAL ORES AND SCRAP (+19%); ELECTRONIC TEXTILE FABRICS (+15%); AND METAL MANUFACTURES (+11%).
THE VOLUME OF ON THE OTHER HAND, CONSIDERABLE DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR FOOTWEAR (-57%); AND TEXTILE MADE- UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (-37%).
AS RKGARDS DOMESTIC RECORDED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF 8.0%.
EXPORT PRICES,
THE
PRICE
OF
FOOTWEAR
ON
RECORDED (-7.0%).
THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT FOR RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-11%); AND TEXTILE YARN AND
PRICES WERE THREAD
THE IMPORT VOLUME OF FOODSTUFFS INCREASED BY 8.1% IN MARCH 1993 AS COMPARED WITH MARCH 1992.
/CONSIDERABLE INCREASES