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SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN IMPORT VOLUME WERE NOTED OF MAN-MADE FIBRES; AND CHEMICAL ELEMENT AND COMPOUNDS. HOWEVER, CONSIDERABLE FABRICS; DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORT VOLUME OF WOVEN COTTON AND WOOD, LUMBER AND CORK.
IMPORTS
OF FUELS INCREASED MARKEDLY BY 72% IN VOLUME 1994 AS COMPARED WITH JULY 1993.
IN JULY
AS REGARDS CAPITAL GOODS, THE IMPORT VOLUME INCREASED BY 10% IN JULY 1994 OVER JULY 1993.
NOTABLE INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORT VOLUME TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT AND OFFICE MACHINERY. HOWEVER, THE IMPORT OF CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY AND TEXTILE MACHINERY DECLINED.
OF
VOLUME
MOST RAW MATERIALS AND FOODSTUFFS
COMPARING JULY 1994 WITH JULY 1993, THE IMPORT PRICES OF END-USE CATEGORIES INCREASED: CONSUMER GOODS (+3.3%), AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES (+3.2%), CAPITAL GOODS (+2.1%) (+1.5%). THE IMPORT PRICES OF FUELS, HOWEVER, DECREASED BY 11%.
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