THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1993
METRO BROADCAST ALL THE
THE BA DECIDED TO ISSUE A STRONG WARNING TO WHICH WAS ALSO ASKED TO DRAW THE ATTENTION OF ITS STAFF TO RELEVANT PROVISIONS IN THE SOUND BROADCASTING LICENCE.
REPORT IN
AS A REGULAR ITEM OF THE AGENDA, THE BA ALSO CONSIDERED OF ITS COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE AND ENDORSED THE COMMITTEE'S DECISION RESPECT OF ALL THE COMPLAINTS DEALT WITH IN THE PAST MONTH.
ELEVEN COMPLAINTS ABOUT UNSATISFACTORY TELEVISION RECEPTION HAD ALSO BEEN REFERRED TO THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR INVESTIGATION.
AND RADIO AUTHORITY
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VOLUME AND PRICE MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN APRIL
IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1993, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WAS VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS RECORDED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF 26%,
TO THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE ACCORDING AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
CENSUS
TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VOLUME TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 21%. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 19% IN VOLUME.
OF
THE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IS DERIVED FROM THE GROWTH IN TRADE VALUES WITH THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES BEING DISCOUNTED.
AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE ABOUT THE SAME WHILE THOSE OF EXPORTS DECREASED BY 0.7%. IMPORT PRICES DECREASED BY 1.1%.
RE-
FOR
INDICES,
CERTAIN
PRICE CHANGES ARE REFLECTED BY CHANGES IN UNIT VALUE
COMPILED ARE
BASED ON AVERAGE UNIT VALUES 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 0.7% IN FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1993 AS COMPARED WITH SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
TAKING APRIL
APRIL 1993 ALONE AND COMPARING WITH
1992, VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WAS VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED WHILE THAT OF EXPORTS INCREASED BY 27%. THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED 21%. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS GREW BY 19%.
THE
RB-
BY
EXPORTS UNCHANGED.
THE OVER
SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC INCREASED BY 0. 7%.
REMAINED THOSE OF RE-EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
THE
CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
OF
DOMESTIC
COMPARING APRIL 1993 WITH APRIL 1992, COMMODITY GROUPS WHICH RECORDED SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES
INCLUDED (+13%).
METAL
ORES AND SCRAP
IN THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS (+15%); AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS
/ON THE