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Commodity sections

Manufactured goods

classified chiefly

Table 4

THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1984

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Imports by commodity sections

Increase/

Percentage

Jan.-Mar. 1984 Jan.-Mar. 1983

($ Mn)

($ Mn)

change

($ Mn)

(%)

by material (mainly

textile products,

diamonds, iron and

steel, and paper)

14,486

8.903

+5,583

+63

Machinery and

transport

●quipment

11,572

7.754

+3,818

+49

Miscellaneous Banu-

factured articles

(mainly watches and

clocks, articles of

apparel)

8,132

6,054

+2,078

+34

Food and live animala

chiefly for food

4,788

4,005

783

+20

Chemicals and

related products

3,504

2,462

+1,041

+42

Minerals fuels,

lubricants and

related materials

2,807

2,681

126

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