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More notable increases were registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $21.5 billion or 37%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $11.4 billion or 12%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $11.3 billion or 20%); textiles (by $9.5 billion or 16%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $6.3 billion or 27%); and footwear (by $5.2 billion or 13%).
Over the same period, a decrease in the value of re-exports was recorded for road vehicles (by $782 million or 2.8%).
The value of domestic exports increased further, by 8.5% over a year earlier to $21.3 billion in October 1994.
Comparing October 1994 with October 1993, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to the Philippines (+33%), Japan (+22%), Singapore (+19%), China (+12%), the Netherlands (+11%), Taiwan (+8%) and the United States (+6.8%).
However, the value of domestic exports to Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom decreased by 12%, 2.8% and 1.9% respectively.
The changes in the value of domestic exports to the 10 main destinations are shown in Table 3.
Comparing the first 10 months of 1994 with the same period in 1993, decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Canada (- 14%), Germany (-10%), the United Kingdom (-6.4%), China (-3.5%) and Taiwan (-1.6%).
However, the value of domestic exports to the Philippines increased significantly by 30%. That to Singapore, Japan, the United States and the Netherlands increased by 8.7%, 3.6%, 2.9% and 2.5% respectively.
Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first 10 months of 1994, at $181.5 billion, decreased slightly by 1% over the same period in 1993. This reflected the continued structural shift to re-exports.
Table 4 shows the changes in the value of domestic exports of the 10 principal commodity divisions.