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More notable increases were registered for office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $8.2 billion or 23%); clothing (by $6.9 billion or 12%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $6.8 billion or 9.4%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $5.7 billion or 6.4%); footwear (by $3.9 billion or 9.8%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $3.9 billion or 12%).
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 $1.6 billion or 2.1%).
Changes in the value of domestic exports to 10 main destinations are shown in Table 3.
Comparing August 1996 with August 1995, the value of domestic exports to all main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (-37%), Singapore (-29%), the United States (-15%), the United Kingdom (-9.6%), Japan (-8.5%), Canada (-8.4%), the Netherlands (-6.9%), France (-6,3%), Germany (-5.8%) and China (-4.9%).
Comparing the first eight months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of domestic exports to all main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: Singapore (-14%), Taiwan (-13%), the United States (-12%), Canada (- 9,6%), the Netherlands (-9.1%), France (-8.3%). Germany (-7.3%), China (-5%), Japan (-2.8%) and the United Kingdom (-0.4%).
Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first eight months of 1996, at $138.2 billion, decreased by 8.3% over the same period in 1995.
Table 4 shows changes in the value of domestic exports of 10 principal commodity divisions.
Comparing the first eight months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, more significant decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $3.4 billion or 28%); clothing (by $3.2 billion or 6.9%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $1.5 billion or 21%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $1.3 billion or 10%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $927 million or 8.5%).