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Comparing the first seven months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (+33%), France (+25%), Japan (+24%), the Netherlands (+14%), Canada (+9.6%), China (+7.3%), the United Kingdom (+6.8%), Singapore (+6.5%) and the United States (+5.4%).
0.7%.
However, the value of domestic exports to Germany decreased marginally, by
Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first seven months of 1995, at $130.2 billion, increased markedly, by 9.3% over the same period in 1994.
Table 4 shows changes in the value of domestic exports of ten principal commodity divisions.
Comparing the first seven months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, increases in the value of domestic exports were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $3.5 billion or 25%); clothing (by $2.7 billion or 7.4%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $1.4 billion or 15%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $1.1 billion or 13%); and miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $601 million or 5.6%).
Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $484 million or 7.3%); and textiles (by $139 million or 1.7%).
The value of imports continued to increase substantially, by 22% over a year earlier to $133.8 billion in July 1995.
Changes in the value of imports from ten main suppliers are shown in Table 5.
Comparing July 1995 with July 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+157%), Malaysia (+61%), the United States (+43%), the United Kingdom (+33%), Taiwan (+26%), China (+19%), Germany (+17%), South Korea (+16%), Japan (+12%) and Singapore (+7.4%).
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Comparing the first seven months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+93%), Malaysia (+46%), the United States (+32%), South Korea (+31%), Singapore (+28%), Taiwan (+25%), the United Kingdom (+23%), Germany (+22%), Japan (+19%) and China (+19%).