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THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAIN DESTINATIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.
COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993, DECREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDE WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ΤΟ MOST OF THE MAIN DESTINATIONS: CANADA (-16%), GERMANY (-12%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (-9.9%), CHINA (-9.3%), TAIWAN (-5.6%), THE NETHERLANDS (-5.5%), JAPAN (-4.6%), THE UNITED STATES (-3.1%) AND MALAYSIA (-0.9%)
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HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE INCREASED
TAKING ALL DESTINATIONS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1994, AT $79.1 BILLION, DECREASED BY 6.6% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993. THIS REFLECTED PARTLY THE CONTINUED STRUCTURAL SHIFT TO RE-EXPORTS AND PARTLY THE WEAK DEMAND IN THE OVERSEAS MARKETS.
TABLE 4 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF THE 10 PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS,
COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993,
DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERFD FOR OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $1.1 BILLJON OR 15%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1.0 BILLION OR 18%}); TEXTILES (BY $917 MILLION OK 13%); CLOTHING (BY $840 MILLION OR 3.6%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $678 MILLION OR 11%); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY OF JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $270 MILLION OR 3.5%).
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OVER THE SAME PERIOD, A MODERATE INCREASE IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $374 MILLION OR 4.1%).
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN MAY 1994, AT $104.3 BILLION, INCREASED BY 15% OVER A YEAR EARLIER.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAIN SUPPLIERS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 5.
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COMPARING MAY 1994 WITH MAY 1993, SHARP INCREASES WERE RECORDED THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM SINGAPORE (+41%), ITALY (+37%), TAIWAN (+22%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+22%), GERMANY (+19%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+18%), CHINA(+18%) AND MALAYSIA (+18%).
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN DECREASED BY 9.1% AND 0.7% RESPECTIVELY.
COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN
1993, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM MOST OF THE MAIN SUPPLIERS SHOWED INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDE : ITALY (+27%), MALAYSIA (+25%), SINGAPORE (+21%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+15%) THE UNITED KINGDOM (+14%), CHINA (+13%), TAIWAN (+9,4%), GERMANY (+6.2%) AND JAPAN (+1.2%).
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