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DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC
EXPORTS ΤΟ JAPAN (-17%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (-12%), GERMANY (-12%), THE UNITED STATES (7.5%), CANADA (-5.9%), FRANCE (-4.8%) AND TAIWAN (-0.7%). BUT INCREASES OF 3.1%, 2.7% AND 1.6% IN VALUE WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE TO THE NETHERLANDS, SINGAPORE AND CHINA RESPECTIVELY.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR DESTINATIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.
COMPARING THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD 1992, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ΤΟ SINGAPORE AND CHINA INCREASED BY 12% AND 6.6% RESPECTIVELY.
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HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO OTHER MAJOR DESTINATIONS: THE UNITED KINGDOM (-14%), JAPAN (-12%), FRANCE (-11%), THE UNITED STATES (-8.2%), CANADA (-7.8%), TAIWAN (-7.0%), GERMANY (-6.4%) AND THE NETHERLANDS (-5.5%).
FOR ALL
DESTINATIONS TAKEN TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1993, AT $144,178 MILLION, DECREASED BY 3.3% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992.
TABLE 4 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF THE 10 MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
COMPARING THE FIRST EIGHT 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 $1,954 MILLION OR 15%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $836 MILLION OR 10%); AND MACHINERY SPECIALIZED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $320 MILLION OR 15%).
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR CLOTHING (BY $3,064 MILLION OR 6.4%); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $1,745 MILLION OR 13%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $1,676 MILLION OR 14%); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $1,409 MILLION OR 9.7%).
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THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN AUGUST 1993 WAS $93,034 MILLION, INCREASING BY 17% OVER THAT IN AUGUST 1992.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 5.
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COMPARING AUGUST 1993 WITH AUGUST 1992, INCREASES WERE RECORDED THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS : SINGAPORE (+38%), MALAYSIA (+31%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+22%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+22%), ITALY (+20%), CHINA (18%), THE UNITED STATES (+18%), GERMANY (+14%), TAIWAN (+12%) AND JAPAN (+11%).
COMPARING THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED : MALAYSIA (+26%), SINGAPORE (+22%), GERMANY (+21%), ITALY (+20%), THE UNITED STATES (+20%), JAPAN (+15%), CHINA (+14%), TAIWAN (+11%), REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+10%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+10%).
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