+
12
Comparing the first two months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, increases of various magnitudes were recorded in the value of re-exports of most principal commodity divisions.
More notable increases were registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $5.7 billion or 45%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $5.4 billion or 51%); textiles (by $3.3 billion or 34%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $3.3 billion or 23%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $2.3 billion or 47%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $1.4 billion or 25%).
Over the same period, a decrease in the value of re-exports was recorded for clothing (by $1.6 billion or 11%).
The value of domestic exports in February 1995, at $14.8 billion, increased by 9.6% over a year earlier.
Comparing February 1995 with February 1994, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Taiwan (+26%), Japan (+26%), China (+25%), Singapore (+15%), France (+7.6%) and the United States (+5.5%).
However, the value of domestic exports to Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands decreased by 23%, 10%, 5.4% and 5.2% respectively.
Changes in the value of domestic exports to 10 main destinations are shown in Table 3.
Comparing the first two months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Japan (+37%), France (+36%), Singapore (+22%), the Netherlands (+17%), China (+15%), Taiwan (+15%), the United States (+11%), Canada (+9.8%) and the United Kingdom (+2.8%).