FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1994
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EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR SEPTEMBER 1994 RELEASED
DETAILED
STATISTICS
THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY
EXTERNAL TRADE ON
WITH COUNTRY/TERRITORY AND COMMODITY FOR SEPTEMBER 1994.
(FRIDAY)
RELEASED
BREAKDOWN
BY
MARKED
THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN SEPTEMBER 1994 CONTINUED TO SHOW
TO BY 17%
$88.1 INCREASE OVER A YEAR EARLIER,
A
BILLION.
COMPARING SEPTEMBER 1994 WITH SEPTEMBER 1993, RECORDED IN
THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (+29%), (+21%), CANADA
SINGAPORE (+18%), THE UNITED (+7.8%) AND TAIWAN (+0.6%).
STATES
INCREASES WERE
JAPAN (+15%),
(+23%),
FRANCE
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA GERMANY DECREASED BY 7.7% AND 2.6% RESPECTIVELY.
AND
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS TO MAIN DESTINATIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
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THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1994 $687.8 BILLION, 15% HIGHER THAN THAT IN THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993.
WAS
COMPARING THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN TO JAPAN 1993, INCREASES
RE-EXPORTS WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF (+23%), CHINA (+18%), THE UNITED STATES (+16%), SINGAPORE (+14%), UNITED KINGDOM (+13%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+8.6%), CANADA GERMANY (+4.3%) AND FRANCE (+3.7%).
THE
(+8.4%),
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN DECREASED
SLIGHTLY
BY 1.1%.
TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS OF THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
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COMPARING THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993, INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDES WERE RECORDED IN THE RE-EXPORTS OF MOST PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
VALUE OF
MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY BILLION OR 36%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY OF BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $9.1 BILLION OR ELECTRICAL 11%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND PARTS THEREOF (BY $8.7 BILLION OR 18%); TEXTILES (BY $8.5 BILLION 16%); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY BILLION OR 26%); AND FOOTWEAR (BY $4.9 BILLION OR 14%).
$18.3
OR $5.3
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, A DECREASE IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (BY $297 MILLION OR 1.2%).
THE
VALUE OF
DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN SEPTEMBER
BILLION, INCREASED BY 2.2% OVER A YEAR EARLIER.
COMPARING
AT 1994,
$19.9
WERE
INCREASES SEPTEMBER 1994 WITH SEPTEMBER 1993, RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MALAYSIA (+19%), SINGAPORE (+13%), JAPAN(+11%) AND THE UNITED STATES (+7.7%).
/HOWEVER, THE