10
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1993
TABLE 4 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF THE 10 MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS,
COMPARING THE FIRST HALF 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 $1,602 MILLION OR 17%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $657 MILLION OR 11%); AND MACHINERY SPECIALIZED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $229 MILLION OR 15%).
VALUE OF DOMESTIC MILLION OR 8.3%); MAINLY JEWELLERY,
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, DECREASES IN THE EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR CLOTHING (BY $2,666 MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING OF GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $1,338 MILLION OR 12%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $1,154 MILLION OR 13%); AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $937 MILLION OR 9.7%).
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN JUNE 1993 WAS $89,295 MILLION, INCREASING BY 5.5% OVER THAT IN JUNE 1992.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 5.
IN
COMPARING JUNE 1993 WITH JUNE 1992, INCREASES WERE RECORDED THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM MOST OF THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS: ITALY (+17%), GERMANY (+14%), JAPAN (+10%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+8.0%), MALAYSIA (+5.2%), TAIWAN (+4.3%), CHINA (+3.8%) AND SINGAPORE (+3.3%).
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM DECREASED BY 8.2% AND 4.1% RESPECTIVELY.
1992.
COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED: MALAYSIA (+25%), THE UNITED STATES (+21%), SINGAPORE (+21%), GERMANY (+21%), ITALY (+19%), JAPAN (+17%), CHINA (+12%), TAIWAN (+10%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+8.7%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+7.0%).
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1993 WAS $506,726 MILLION, AN INCREASE OF 14% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992.
TABLE 6 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS OF THE 10 MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS OF MOST COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
1992,
MAJOR
(BY
MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR ROAD VEHICLES $16,196 MILLION OR 124%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $9,275 MILLION OR 22%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $5,892 MILLION OR 17%); FOOTWEAR (BY $5,305 MILLION 38%); CLOTHING (BY $4,405 MILLION OR 12%); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $3,638 MILLION OR 11%).
OR
/OVER THE