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Comparing the three months ending January 1995 with the three months ending January 1994, increases in the value of domestic exports were registered for photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $1.1 billion or 28%); clothing (by $1.0 billion or 5.5%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $854 million or 19%); and electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $796 million or 14%);
Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $251 million or 5.0%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $157 million or 5.3%); and textiles (by $111 million or 2.9%).
The value of imports continued to increase substantially, by 31% over a year earlier to $104.9 billion in January 1995.
Changes in the value of imports from the 10 main suppliers are shown in Table 5.
Comparing January 1995 with January 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+171%), Singapore (+75%), the United States (+36%), the United Kingdom (+33%), Germany (+30%), Malaysia (+30%), South Korea (+28%), China (+28%), Taiwan (+21%) and Japan (+20%).
Comparing the three months ending January 1995 with the three months ending January 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+67%), Singapore (+41%), Malaysia (+32%), South Korea (+30%), the United Kingdom (+28%), Germany (+27%), Taiwan (+22%), Japan (+21%), the United States (+21%) and China (+21%).
Table 6 shows changes in the value of imports of the 10 principal commodity divisions.
Comparing the three months ending January 1995 with the three months ending January 1994, increases were recorded in the value of imports of all principal commodity divisions.