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Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in 1994, at $222.1 billion, decreased marginally by 0.4% over 1993. This represented an improvement from the corresponding decline of 5% in 1993.
Table 4 shows the changes in the value of domestic exports of the 10 principal commodity divisions.
Comparing the year 1994 with the year 1993, decreases in the value of domestic exports were registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $1.7 billion or 12%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $1.3 billion or 6.3%); textiles (by $1.1 billion or 7.1%); and machinery specialised for particular industries (by $435 million or 12%).
Over the same period, increases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $2.1 billion or 9.5%); and clothing (by $1.2 billion or 1.7%).
The value of imports continued to increase significantly to $111.6 billion in December 1994, by 16% over a year earlier.
The changes in the value of imports from the 10 main suppliers are shown in Table 5.
Comparing December 1994 with December 1993, the value of imports from most of the main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+23%), Malaysia (+23%), Taiwan (+21%), Germany (+20%), China (+16%), South Korea (+16%), Italy (+16%), Japan (+14%) and the United Kingdom (+10%).
0.7%.
However, the value of imports from the United States decreased marginally by
Comparing the year 1994 with the year 1993, the value of imports from all of the main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+30%), Italy (+27%), Malaysia (+27%), South Korea (+19%), the United Kingdom (+19%), China (+17%), Germany (+15%), Taiwan (+14%), the United States (+12%) and Japan (+9.6%).
The value of imports in the year 1994, at $1,250.7 billion, increased markedly by 17% over the year 1993.
Table 6 shows the changes in the value of imports of the 10 principal commodity divisions.
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