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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1983

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INCREASES WERE RECORDED MAINLY IN TEXTILES (BY $739 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT); CLOTHING (BY $719 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT); MEAT AND MEAT PREPARATIONS (BY $175 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT); CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $152 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT); AND PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (BY $122 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT).

AS FOR IMPORTS FROM JAPAN, INCREASES WERE NOTED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1 021 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT); AND TEXTILES (BY $654 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT). HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (INCLUDING AIR CUSHION VEHICLES) (BY $428 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT); AND GENERAL INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT, AND MACHINE PARTS (BY $162 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT).

INCREASES IN IMPORTS FROM THE U.S.A. WERE MOSTLY OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $743 MILLION OR 81 PER CENT); PÉTROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (BY $481 MILLION OR 1 065 PER CENT) AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $236 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS OF GENERAL INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT, AND MACHINE PARTS (BY $134 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT) AND PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES UNWORKED OR WORKED (BY $97 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT).

DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS FROM TAIWAN OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $51 MILLION OR 15 PER CENT) AND IN IMPORTS FROM SINGAPORE OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (BY $1 384 MILLION OR 33 PER CENT). HOWEVER, IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF FROM TAIWAN INCREASED (BY $141 MILLION OR 15 PER CENT); AND IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF FROM SINGAPORE ALSO INCREASED (BY $193 MILLION OR 51 PER CENT).

TABLE 4 ILLUSTRATES THE MORE IMPORTANT CHANGES IN IMPORTS

BY COMMODITY SECTIONS.

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S.A. (BY $890 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT), CHINA (BY $646 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (BY $451 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT), REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA) (BY $416 MILLION OR 45 PER CENT), SAUDI ARABIA (BY $302 MILLION OR 63 PER CENT), TAIWAN (BY $233 MILLION OR 15 PER CENT), MACAU (BY $179 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT) AND NETHERLANDS (BY $152 MILLION OR 153 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECLINES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO INDONESIA (BY $269 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT) AND NIGERIA (BY $194 MILLION OR 35 PER CENT). THE CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE TEN MAJOR MARKETS ARE GIVEN IN TABLE 5.

MOST COMMODITIES RE-EXPORTED THROUGH HONG KONG EXHIBITED STRONG GROWTH, THE MORE SIGNIFICANT ONES BEING CLOTHING (BY $773 MILLION OR 47 PER CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES. OPTICAL GOODS AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS BY $521 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $458 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT) AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $220 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT).

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