PRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1993
COMPARING THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1,467 MILLION OR 26%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $531 MILLION OR 14%); TEXTILES (BY $171 MILLION OR 3.4%); AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $108 MILLION OR 1.8%).
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR CLOTHING (BY $1,614 MILLION OR 8.3%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS ' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $829 MILLION OR 12%); AND PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $485 MILLION OR 8.6%).
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN APRIL 1993 WAS $93,654 MILLION, INCREASING BY 19% OVER THAT IN APRIL 1992.
RECORDED
COMPARING APRIL 1993 WITH APRIL 1992, INCREASES WERE IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS: FRANCE (+127%), SINGAPORE (+38%), ITALY (+34%), THE UNITED STATES (+27%), GERMANY (+22%), JAPAN (+22%), CHINA (+16%), TAIWAN (+14%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+5.4%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+1.2%).
COMPARING THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992,
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED : FRANCE (+34%), SINGAPORE (+33%), THE UNITED STATES (+26%), GERMANY (+26%), ITALY (+21%), JAPAN (+19%), TAIWAN (+15%), CHINA (+15%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+12%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+8.6%).
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1993 WAS $326,708 MILLION, AN INCREASE OF 18% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992.
COMPARING THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS OF ALL MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
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MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR ROAD VEHICLES $10,080 MILLION OR 118%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $7,454 MILLION OR 28%); FOOTWEAR (BY $3,699 MILLION OR 41%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $3,550 MILLION OR 16%); CLOTHING (BY $3,161 MILLION OR 14%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $2,958 MILLION OR 15%); AND TEXTILES (BY $932 MILLION OR 3.1%).
ALL THE TRADE STATISTICS DESCRIBED HERE ARE MEASURED AT CURRENT PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF FOR THE CHANGES IN PRICES BETWEEN THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON.
A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF THE VOLUME AND PRICE MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE FOR APRIL 1993 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY JULY.
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