Taking all destinations together, the value of re-exports in the first ten months of 1996 was $986.9 billion, 6.9% 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 ten months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of re-exports of most principal commodity divisions rose. More notable increases were registered for office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $10.7 billion or 23%); clothing (by $8.7 billion or 11%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $7.6 billion or 8.1%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $7.2 billion or 6.0%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $5.1 billion or 12%); footwear (by $4.5 billion or 9.0%); and textiles (by $2.2 billion or 2.8%).
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 $2.6 billion or 2.6%).
Changes in the value of domestic exports to ten main destinations are shown in Table 3.
Comparing October 1996 with October 1995, the value of domestic exports to China and Germany increased by 7.1% and 2.6% respectively.
On the other hand, decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Singapore (-34%), Taiwan (-17%), the United States (-14%), Canada (-12%), France (-9.4%), the Netherlands (-8.7%), Japan (-4.6%) and the United Kingdom
(-4.4%). Nevertheless, domestic exports to many of these markets showed smaller declines in October than in September.
Comparing the first ten months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of domestic exports to all main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes : Singapore (-17%), Taiwan (-15% ), the United States (-13%), Canada (-9.7%), the Netherlands (-8.8%), France (-7.9%), Germany (-6.0%), China (-4.3%), Japan (-3.2%) and the United Kingdom (-1.7%).
Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first ten months of 1996, at $175.9 billion, decreased by 8.7% over the same period in 1995.