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Taking all destinations together, the value of re-exports in the first half of 1996 was $550.8 billion, 6.9% higher than that in the same period in 1995.
Table 2 shows changes in the value of re-exports of 10 principal commodity
divisions.
Comparing the first half of 1996 with the same period in 1995, increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $5.9 billion or 11%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $5.6 billion or 21%); clothing (by $3.9 billion or 9.9%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $3.5 billion or 5.9%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $2.4 billion or 10%); and footwear (by $2.3 billion or 7.8%).
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 $1.1 billion or 1.9%).
Changes in the value of domestic exports to 10 main destinations are shown in Table 3.
Comparing June 1996 with June 1995, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (-29%), the Netherlands (-27%), Germany (-22%), Canada (-20%), France (-19%), the United States (-18%), China (-17%), the United Kingdom
(-17%) and Singapore (-13%).
The value of domestic exports to Japan nevertheless increased by 2.6%.
Comparing the first half of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: the United States (-12%), the Netherlands (-11%), Canada (-11%), Singapore (-10%), France (-10%), Germany (-8.9%), China (-5.6%), Taiwan (-4.7%) and Japan (-1.3%).
Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first half
of 1996, at $99.3 billion, decreased by 8.2% over the same period in 1995.
Table 4 shows changes in the value of domestic exports of 10 principal commodity divisions.