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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1977

THE MORE NOTEWORTHY INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES (+ $543 MILLION OR +23.7 PER CENT) AND TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT (+ $382 MILLION OR +89.7 PER CENT). OTHER INCREASES OCCURRED IN PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CONTROLLING INSTRUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND

IMPORTS OF WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+ $372 MILLION OR +28.6%). TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD, TEXTILE FABRICS DECLINED BY $125 MILLION (-9.2 PER CENT) AND $145 MILLION (-6.1 PER CENT) RESPECTIVELY. DYEING, TANNING AND COLOURING MATERIAL ALSO RECORDED A DROP OF $68 MILLION OR 15.6 PER CENT.

RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN AND U.S.A. DROPPED BY 6.4 PER CENT AND 3.4 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. HOWEVER, RE-EXPORTS TO VARIOUS ASIAN COUNTRIES, SUCH AS SINGAPORE (+14.8 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+6.2 PER CENT), INDONESIA (+20.5 PER CENT), AND SOUTH KOREA (+16.2 PER CENT) WERE INCREASING. MAJOR INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS WERE RECORDED IN ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES (+$91 MILLION), TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (+$69 MILLION), TEXTILE FABRICS (+$55 MILLION), AND MEDICINAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS (+55 MILLION).

THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ALSO ANNOUNCED THE VARIOUS TRADE INDEX NUMBERS (1973 = 100) FOR JUNE AS FOLLOWS :

VALUE INDEX UNIT VALUE INDEX

DOMESTIC EXPORTS

181

IMPORTS

165

131

134

QUANTUM INDEX

138

123

THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX (1.E. EXPORT PRICES OVER IMPORT PRICES) FOR JUNE IS 98.

(NOTE: VALUE FIGURES HAVE BEEN ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST

MILLION DOLLAR.)

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