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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1980

MISCELLANEOUS

MANUFACTURED ARTICLES

MAINLY WATCHES AND CLOCKS, ARTICLES OF APPAREL)

FOOD AND LIVE ANIMALS

CHIEFLY FOR FOOD

1 083

652

+ 431

66

881

736

+ 145

20

MINERAL FUELS,

LUBRICANTS

AND RELATED MATERIALS 733

287

+ 446

+ 155

CHEMICALS AND

RELATED PRODUCTS

690

397

+ 293

74

BY COMMODITY, INCREASES IN IMPORTS WERE DUE MAINLY TO PETROLEUM AND RELATED PRODUCTS (BY $440 MILLION OR 161 PER CENT), TEXTILES (BY $214 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS NON- METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY $198 MILLION OR 71 PER CENT) ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES (BY $167 MILLION OR 48 PER CENT), AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $153 MILLION OR 70 PER CENT).

Á RECORD GROWTH OF $163 MILLION OR 417 PER CENT WAS RECORDED FOR RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA. RE-EXPORTS TO USA, TAIWAN AND SINGAPORE ALSO SHOWED INCREASES OF $77 MILLION OR 70 PER CENT, $62 MILLION OR 48 PER CENT, AND $33 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

VERY ACTIVE DEMAND FOR RE-EXPORTS WAS RECORDED, PARTICULARLY FOR NON-FERROUS METALS (BY $101 MILLION OR 602 PER CENT) METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $53 MILLION OR 2 942 PER CENT), CLOTHING (BY $50 MILLION OR 96 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $49 MILLION OR 61 PER CENT), AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $44 MILLION OR 140 PER CENT).

THE TRADE INDICES FOR DECEMBER 1979 (1973 - 100) WERE AS FOLLOWS:

VALUE INDEX

DOMESTIC EXPORTS

345

IMPORTS

345

UNIT VALUE

INDEX

QUANTUM INDEX

171

202

178

.194

THE TRADE INDEX FOR DECEMBER 1979 WAS 96.

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