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More notable increases were registered for miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $6.9 billion or 29%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $6.8 billion or 31%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $5.7 billion or 30%); textiles (by $3.6 billion or 20%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $3.1 billion or 36%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $2.9 billion or 31%).
Over the same period, a decrease in the value of re-exports was recorded for clothing (by $1.3 billion or 5.5%).
The value of domestic exports in January 1995, at $18.2 billion, increased markedly by 18% over a year earlier.
Comparing January 1995 with January 1994, the value of domestic exports to all main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+66%), Japan (+47%), the Netherlands (+37%), Singapore (+29%), Canada (+26%), Germany (+17%), the United States (+16%), the United Kingdom (+15%), China (+7.3%) and Taiwan (+6.5%).
Changes in the value of domestic exports to the 10 main destinations are shown in Table 3.
Comparing the three months ending January 1995 with the three months ending January 1994, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to France (+42%), Japan (+36%), the Netherlands (+24%), Singapore (+11%), the United Kingdom (+7.1%), Canada (+7.0%), Germany (+4.7%) and the United States (+2.2%).
However, the value of domestic exports to Taiwan and China decreased by 4.4% and 1.4% respectively.
Table 4 shows changes in the value of domestic exports of the 10 principal commodity divisions.