- 11.
Over the same period, decreases in the value of re-exports were registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $3.0 billion or 2.6%).
Changes in the value of domestic exports to ten main destinations are shown in Table 3.
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Comparing December 1996 with December 1995, the value of domestic exports to all main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: Singapore (-25%), Taiwan (-20%), the Netherlands (-17%), Japan (-17%), the United Kingdom (-16%), Canada (-14%), Germany (-13%), the United States (-8.6%), France (-5.5%) and China (-0.2%).
Comparing 1996 with 1995, the value of domestic exports to all main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes : Singapore (-18%), Taiwan (- 16%), the United States (-12%), Canada (-10%), the Netherlands (-9.3%), France (- 7.1%), Germany (-6.5%), Japan (-4.6%), the United Kingdom (-3.1%) and China (- 3.0%).
Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports, at $212.2 billion, decreased by 8.4% in 1996.
Table 4 shows changes in the value of domestic exports of ten principal commodity divisions.
Comparing 1996 with 1995, the value of domestic exports of most principal commodity divisions decreased. More notable decreases were registered for office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $4.8 billion or 27%); clothing (by $4.4 billion or 5.9%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $2.0 billion or 12%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $2.0 billion or 19%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $1.8 billion or 9.0%); and electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $1.5 billion or 4.8%).
Over the same period, an increase in the value of domestic exports was registered for professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (by $382 million or 13%).
Changes in the value of imports from ten main suppliers are shown in Table 5.