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TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1978

MACHINERY AND

TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT

1,421

1,547

+126

+ 8.8%

FOOD AND LIVE ANIMALS

CHIEFLY FOR FOOD

1,113

1,187

+74

+ 6.6

MISCELLANEOUS

MANUFACTURED

ARTICLES

(MAINLY WATCHES AND

836

1,034

+197

+23.6%

CLOCKS, ARTICLES

OF APPAREL)

CHEMICALS AND RELATED

562

571

+ 10

+ 1.7%

PRODUCTS

ALL COMMODITY SECTIONS REGISTERED INCREASES IN IMPORTS. REMARKABLE INCREASES OCCURRED IN TEXTILE FABRICS ($630 MILLION, +16.3 PER CENT), PETROLEUM AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ($509 MILLION, +18.5 PER CENT), PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES ($450 MILLION, +49.3 PER CENT), TEXTILE YARN ($413 MILLION, +19 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS ($377 MILLION, +42.5 PERCENT) AND ROAD VEHICLES ($214 MILLION, +46.4 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN WERE VALUED AT $272 MILLION, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 14.3 PER CENT, THE INCREASE WAS ASCRIBED TO MORE RE-EXPORTS OF PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES ($99 MILLION, + 60.9 PER CENT) AND TEXTILE FIBRES ($27 MILLION, + 956.7 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS TO THE OTHER MAJOR MARKETS, INDONESIA (213 MILLION, + 86.9 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (205 MILLION, + 18.8 PER CENT) AND THE U.S. ($146 MILLION, 17.2 PER CENT) ALSO INCREASED FAVOURABLY.

THE TRADE INDEX NUMBERS FOR JANUARY 1978 ARE AS FOLLOWS :-

(1973 100)

VALUE INDEX

UNIT VALUE

INDEX

QUANTUM INDEX

DOMESTIC EXPORTS

168

133

126

IMPORTS

177

137

130

EXPORT UNIT VALUE INDEX

THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX (I.E.

IMPORT UNIT VALUE INDEX

FOR JANUARY IS 97.

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