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TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1979

FOOD AND LIVE ANIMALS

CHIEFLY FOR FOOD

736

693

43

6

MISCELLANEOUS MANU-—

FACTURED ARTICLES

(MAINLY WATCHES AND

CLOCKS AND ARTICLES OF

APPAREL)

652

505

+ 147

• 29

CHEMICALS AND RELATED

PRODUCTS

397

301

96

+ 32

BY COMMODITY INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS OF TEXTILES ($860 MILLION. + 49 PER CENT), ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES ($345 MILLION, +46 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS ($218 MILLION, 31 PER CENT), TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT ($196 MILLION, 59 PER CENT), AND IRON AND STEEL ($155 MILLION, 26 PER CENT).

+

DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN ARRIVALS OF CEREALS AND CEREAL PREPARATIONS ($98 MILLION, EIGHT PER CENT), AND TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES ($33 MILLION, - 19 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 49 PER CENT IN JANUARY 1979 AND THIS WAS MAINLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE INCREASED SHIPMENTS OF GOODS TO JAPAN ($205 MILLION, + 49 PER CENT), TAIWAN ($128 MILLION, 60 PER CENT), U.S.A. ($109 MILLION, +34 PER CENT), REPUBLIC OF KOREA ($58 MILLION, + 55 PER CENT) AND THE PHILIPPINES ($56 MILLION, 90 PER CENT).

ACTIVE DEMAND WAS RECORDED FOR PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI- PRECIOUS STONES ($149 MILLION, + 20 PER CENT), TEXTILE FABRICS ($105 MILLION, + 168 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS ($80 MILLION, + 43 PER CENT), AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES ($70 MILLION,79 PER CENT).

THE TRADE INDEX NUMBERS FOR DECEMBER 1978 AND THE YEAR 1978 (IN BRACKETS) WERE AS FOLLOWS:-

1973 - 100

VALUE INDEX

UNIT VALUE

INDEX

QUANTUM INDEX

DOMESTIC

EXPORTS

265 (209)

145 (139)

183 (150)

IMPORTS

282 (217) (217)

149 (143)

189 (152)

THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX FOR DECEMBER 1978 WAS 97 (97).