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Taking all destinations together, the value of re-exports in the first four months of 1996 was $358.6 billion, 10% higher than that in the same period in 1995.
Table 2 shows changes in the value of re-exports of ten principal commodity
divisions.
Comparing the first four months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the More notable value of re-exports of most principal commodity divisions rose. increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $5.8 billion or 18%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $4.4 billion or 26%); clothing (by $2.9 billion or 11%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $2.4 billion or 6.6%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $2.2 billion or 15%); and footwear (by $2 billion or 11%).
Over the same period, a decrease in the value of re-exports was registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $1.3 billion or 3,6%).
Changes in the value of domestic exports to ten main destinations are shown in Table 3.
Comparing April 1996 with April 1995, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Japan (+21%), the United Kingdom (+9.6%), China (+9.3%) and Germany (+4.6%).
Over the same period, decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to France (-12%), Singapore (-6.1%), the Netherlands (-5.6%), the United States (-4.9%), Taiwan (-3.7%) and Canada (-3.7%).
Comparing the first four months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of domestic exports to Taiwan and the United Kingdom increased by 6.2% and 5.3% respectively. But decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Singapore (-9.9%), the United States (-8.4%), Canada (-4.1%), Germany (-4.1%), the Netherlands (-4.0%), Japan (-2.3%), France (-2.3%) and China (-0.2%).
Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first four months of 1996, at $64.7 billion, decreased by 4% over the same period in 1995. The decline was nevertheless mainly due to the particularly weak export performance in March.