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Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for textiles (by $576 million or 5.2%); and telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $532 million or 6.2%).
The value of imports continued to increase substantially, by 15% over a year earlier to $131 billion in September 1995.
Changes in the value of imports from 10 main suppliers are shown in Table 5.
Comparing September 1995 with September 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: Malaysia (+48%), the United Kingdom (+33%), the United States (+28%), South Korea (+24%), France (+24%), China (+16%), Taiwan (+13%), Singapore (+12%), Japan (+4.8%) and Germany (+0.5%),
Comparing the first nine months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+85%), Malaysia (+46%), South Korea (+31%), the United States (+31%), Singapore (+30%), the United Kingdom (+25%), Taiwan (+23%), Germany (+19%), China (+17%) and Japan (+17%).
The value of imports in the first nine months of 1995, at $1,107.3 billion, increased markedly by 22% over the same period in 1994.
Table 6 shows changes in the value of imports of 10 principal commodity divisions.
Comparing the first nine months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, increases were recorded in the value of imports of most principal commodity divisions.
More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $40 billion or 41%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $22.2 billion or 26%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $16.4 billion or 49%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $11.6 billion or 18%); textiles (by $11.1 billion or 13%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $8.1 billion or 21%).