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Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $678 million or 7%); and textiles (by $671 million or 5.4%).
The value of imports continued to increase, by 13% over a year earlier to $131.3 billion in October 1995.
Changes in the value of imports from ten main suppliers are shown in Table 5.
Comparing October 1995 with October 1994, the value of imports from most main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes : France (+87%), Malaysia (+36%), South Korea (+25%), Taiwan (+24%), the United States (+21%), the United Kingdom (+21%), Singapore (+14%), China (+7.9%) and Japan (+6.1%).
However, the value of imports from Germany decreased by 10%.
Comparing the first 10 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 (+45%), South Korea (+31%), the United States (+30%), Singapore (+28%), the United Kingdom (+25%), Taiwan (+23%), China (+16%), Japan (+16%) and Germany (+15%).
The value of imports in the first 10 months of 1995, at $1,238.5 billion, increased by 21% over the same period in 1994.
Table 6 shows changes in the value of imports of ten principal commodity
divisions.
Comparing the first 10 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 $43.3 billion or 39%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $22.9 billion or 23%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $17.4 billion or 45%); textiles (by $12.3 billion or 13%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $12.1 billion or 16%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $8.9 billion or 20%).