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More notable increases were registered for office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $7.4 billion or 24%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $7.2 billion or 12%); clothing (by $5.2 billion or 11%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $4.9 billion or 6.7%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $3.5 billion or 13%); and footwear (by $3.1 billion or 8.9%).
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 $698 million or 1.1%).
Changes in the value of domestic exports to 10 main destinations are shown in Table 3.
Comparing July 1996 with July 1995, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (-34%), Singapore (-21%), the United States (-9%), Japan (-5.2%), Canada (-4.4%), the Netherlands (- 2.6%), France (-2.3%). Germany (-2.3%) and China (-1,9%).
6.9%.
However, the value of domestic exports to the United Kingdom increased by
Comparing the first seven months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: Singapore (-12%), the United States (-11%), Canada (-9.8%), Taiwan (- 9.5%), the Netherlands (-9.4%), France (-8.7%), Germany (-7.6%), China (-5%) and Japan (-1.9%).
However, the value of domestic exports to the United Kingdom increased slightly, by 1.3%.
Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first seven months of 1996, at $120.1 billion, decreased by 7.8% over the same period in 1995.
Table 4 shows changes in the value of domestic exports of ten principal commodity divisions.