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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1982

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP ARE

UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC SHOWN BELOW-

PERCENTAGE CHANGES COMPARING JULY 1982 WITH JULY 1981

EXPORT

UNIT VALUE

EXPORT

EXPORT

VALUE

VOLUME

CLOTHING (EXCEPT FUR)

+9

TEXTILE FABRICS

-13

+12

5

- 3

-17.

TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD

-15

6

TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND

RELATED ARTICLES

-11

+

-19

ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

-16

- 9

- 2

-31

-5

UHWN (

+19

-18

3

+9

-11

-12

-22

-16

+12

+4

+7

2

FOOTWEAR

METAL MANUFACTURES

METAL ORES AND SCRAP WATCHES AND CLOCKS ALL COMMODITIES

THE DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES OF SOME COMMODITY GROUPS INCREASED, FROM FIVE PER CENT FOR TEXTILE FABRICS TO 19 PER CENT FOR FOOTWEAR. ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN THE DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES WERE RECORDED FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (-8 PER CENT), TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (-9 PER CENT), METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-12 PER CENT), AS WELL AS WATCHES AND CLOCKS (-16 PER CENT).

DECREASES IN THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR MOST COMMODITY GROUPS, INCLUDING TEXTILE FABRICS (-17 PER CENT), FOOTWEAR (-18 PER CENT), TEXTILE MADE-UPS (-19 PER CENT) AND METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-22 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, CONSIDERABLE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WAS REGISTERED FOR WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+12 PER CENT).

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF IMPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN BELOW:-

PERCENTAGE CHANGES COMPARING JULY 1982 WITH JULY 1981

FOODSTUFFS

CONSUMER GOODS

FUELS

RAW MATERIALS AND

SEMI-MANUFACTURES

CAPITAL GOODS

ALL COMMODITIES

IMPORT UNIT VALUE

IMPORT VOLUME

+14 INSIGNIFICANT

-24

IMPORT VALUE

+21

++

-30

5

+ 2

+20

+13

+7

3

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FUELS, THE PRICES OF WHICH DROPPED BY EIGHT PER CENT, THE PRICES OF IMPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY INCREASED MODERATELY, RANGING FROM TWO PER CENT FOR RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES TO 13 PER CENT FOR CAPITAL GOODS.

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