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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1994
MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE KEGISTERED FOR
$14.2 AND
$5.4
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY BILLION OR 38%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $6.4 BILLION OR 17%); TEXTILES (BY BILLION OR 13%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY OR OF BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $5.1 BILLION
MACHINES AND 9.0%); FOOTWEAR (BY $4.0 BILLION OR 15%); AND OFFICE AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $3.9 BILLION OR 26%).
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, A DECREASE IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (BY $1.0 BILLION OR 5.1%).
THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN JULY 1994, AT $20.4 DECREASED BY 4.4% OVER A YEAR EARLIER.
BILLION,
EXPORTS ΤΟ
THE UNITED KINGDOM
DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC
CHINA (-8,3%), CANADA GERMANY (-18%),
(-12%), (-5.3%) AND JAPAN (-1.2%).
MALAYSIA INCREASED SINGAPORE AND THE
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THAT TO THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED STATES INCREASED BY 5.3%, 5.0% AND 1.9% RESPECTIVELY.
SIGNIFICANTLY
BY 32%.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE DESTINATIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.
10 MAIN
PERIOD
TO
COMPARING THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME IN 1993, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS
CHINA CANADA
(-7.3%), THE UNITED GERMANY (-13%), (-14%), (-6.9%), TAIWAN (-2.8%), JAPAN (-1.2%) AND THE UNITED STATES (-0.3%).
KINGDOM
MALAYSIA
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE, AND THE NETHERLANDS INCREASED BY 5.4%, 4.7% AND 0.9% RESPECTIVELY.
TAKING ALL DESTINATIONS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1994, AT $119.2 BILLION,
PERIOD IN
THIS
REFLECTED
DECREASED BY PARTLY THE
1993. 4.3% OVER
SAME 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 THE 10 PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
OF
PERIOD
APPARATUS
COMPARING THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME
WERE REGISTERED IN 1993, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING
OR AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1.3 BILLION OR 17%); TEXTILES (BY $1.2 BILLION
GOODS, 13%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL
OFFICE MACHINES AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $734 MILLION OR 8.0%);
$639 MILLION OR 6.4%); (BY MACHINES AUTOMATIC
PROCESSING
OF JEWELLERY, MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY
5.3%); AND GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $593 MILLION OR CLOTHING (BY $466 MILLION OR 1.2%).
DATA
THE VALUE OF OVER THE SAME PERIOD, A MODERATE INCREASE IN
APPARATUS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY,
(BY $927 MILLION OR 7.3%). APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF
/THE VALUE