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Over the same period, increases in the value of domestic exports were registered for professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (by $186 million or 9.8%); and electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $102 million or 0.5%)
Changes in the value of imports from 10 main suppliers are shown in Table 5.
Comparing August 1996 with August 1995, increases were recorded in the value of imports from Malaysia (+23%), Italy (+10%), the United States (+9.5%) and China (+9%).
However, the value of imports from Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany and the United Kingdom decreased by 22%, 13%, 9.2%, 7.9%, 5.3% and 2.8% respectively.
Comparing the first eight months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, increases were recorded in the value of imports from Malaysia (+18%), Italy (+18%), the United Kingdom (+9.7%), the United States (+6.9%), Singapore (+6%), China (+6%) and Germany (+1.2%).
However, the value of imports from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea decreased by 8%, 3.9% and 0.5% respectively.
Taking all sources together, the value of imports in the first eight months of 1996, at $1,004.5 billion, increased by 2.9% over the same period in 1995.
Table 6 shows changes in the value of imports of 10 principal commodity divisions.
Comparing the first eight months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, more notable increases in the value of imports were registered for office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $7.9 billion or 18%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $7.6 billion or 6.3%); clothing (by $4.6 billion or 7.5%); footwear (by $3 billion or 8.6%); and miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $3 billion or 4,5%),
Over the same period, decreases in the value of imports were recorded for textiles (by $2.1 billion or 2.4%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $1.7 billion or 1.8%); and non-metallic mineral manufactures (by $627 million or 2.2%),
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