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MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1982

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FURTHER ANALYSIS OF COMMODITY BY COUNTRY REVEALED GROWTH IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS TO THE U.S. (BY $46 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (BY $26 MILLION OR 118 PER CENT); IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING TO JAPAN (BY $82 MILLION OR 36 PER CENT) AND THE U.S. (BY $28 MILLION OR TWO PER CENT) AND IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS TO THE U.S. (BY $78 MILLION OR 111 PER CENT) AND CANADA (BY $46 MILLION OR 849 PER CENT).

AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM THE SIX MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE GIVEN

BELOW 1-

JAN.-JUNE

1982 ($ MILLION)

JAN.-JUNE

1981 $ MILLION)

INCREASE/ DECREASE ($ MILLION)

PERCENTAGE

CHANGE

%

JAPAN

2 900

2 803

+ 97

+ 3

U.S.A.

2 687

2 438

+249

+10

U.K.

1 108

673

+435

+65

SWITZERLAND

968

1 122

-155

-14

TAIWAN

902

633

+269

+42

SINGAPORE

628

543

+ 85

+16

INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $990 MILLION OR 89 PER CENT), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHOD AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS (BY $464 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT) AND CLOTHING (BY $130 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT). IN CONTRAST, DECREASE IN VALUE WERE NOTED FOR WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $680 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT) AS WELL AS PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $239 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT).

GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO- CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS FROM TAIWAN (BY $223 MILLION OR 178 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (BY $71 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT). DECREASES IN VALUE WERE ALSO REGISTERED IN WATCHES AND CLOCKS FROM SWITZERLAND (BY $267 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT) AND FROM JAPAN (BY $179 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT).

AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS EXPERIENCED SLOW GROWTH IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1982. CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN VALUES WERE RECORDED FOR PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $289 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS (BY $87 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT) AND POWER GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (BY 343 MILLION OR 151 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS OF METALL IFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP DECREASED SUBSTANTIALLY (BY $389 MILLION OR 97 PER CENT),

/THE U.S.