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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1993
VOLUME AND PRICE MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN AUGUST
THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF
WITH THE SAME PERIOD THIS YEAR DECREASED BY 3.7% AS COMPARED
LAST YEAR, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS RECORDED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF 22%.
THIS IS ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VOLUME EXPORTS INCREASED BY 16%. IMPORTS ALSO INCREASED BY 16%
OF IN
TOTAL VOLUME.
THE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IS DERIVED FROM THE GROWTH IN TRADE VALUES WITH THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES BEING DISCOUNTED.
VIRTUALLY
AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS BOTH REMAINED UNCHANGED. IMPORT PRICES DECREASED BY 0.7%.
WHICH
PRICE CHANGES ARE REFLECTED BY CHANGES IN UNIT VALUE ARE COMPILED BASED ON AVERAGE UNIT VALUES OR, FOR
COMMODITIES, BASED ON SPECIFIC PRICE DATA.
INDICES, CERTAIN
EXPORT
THE
THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX, DEFINED AS THE RATIO OF TOTAL PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX, INCREASED SLIGHTLY BY 0.5% IN FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1993 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
THE
TAKING AUGUST 1993 ALONE AND COMPARING WITH AUGUST 1992, VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 6.0% WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 20%. THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 14%. VOLUME OF IMPORTS GREW BY 18%.
THE
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND IMPORTS BOTH REMAINED VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED. RE-EXPORT PRICES DECREASED BY 0.7%.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
OF
COMPARING AUGUST 1993 WITH AUGUST 1992, WITH THE EXCEPTION TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES WHICH RECORDED AN INCREASE OF 2.6%, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR OTHER COMMODITY GROUPS DECREASED, PARTICULARLY RADIOS OF ALL KINDS
AND (-52%);
FOOTWEAR
(-47%).
AS REGARDS DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES, THE PRICES OF FOOTWEAR CLOTHING INCREASED BY 3.0% AND 1.1% RESPECTIVELY.
AND
ON THE
PRICES OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT RECORDED FOR TEXTILE FABRICS (-6.4%); TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (-5.4%); AND RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-4.7%).
WERE
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF IMPORTS END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 2.
BY
/THE IMPORT