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JANUARY TO APRIL EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS

Domestic exports by ten major markete

Table 1

Major markets

Jan.-Apr.

1984

Jan.-Apr.

Percentage

1983

Increase

change

($ Mn)

($ Mn)

($ Mn)

(*)

U.S.A.

16,734

10,232

+6,502

+64

F.R. of Germany

2,905

2,068

837

+40

U.K.

2,880

2,050

830

+41

China

2,748

1,494

+1,254

+84

Japan

1,427

1,006

+

421

+42

Canada

1,223

917

306

+33

Australia

1,137

697

440

+63

Singapore

841

632

209

+33

Netherlanda

713

556

+

157

+28

Switzerland

591

449

+

142

+32

Table 2

Domestic exporta by major commodity divisions

Jan.-Apr.

Jan.-Apr.

Percentage

Commodity divisions

1984

1983

Increase

change

($ Mn)

($ Mn)

($ Mn)

(%)

Articles of apparel and

clothing accessories

12,734

8,567

+4,167

+49

Miscellaneous manufactured

articles (mainly plastic toys

and dolls, jewellery, goldsmiths*

and silvermitha' wares, and

artificial flowers)

5,509

3,953

+1,557

+39

Flectrical machinery, apparatus

and appliances (mainly transistors

and diodes and household type

appliances)

3,400

2,163

+1,237

+57

Telecommunications and sound

recording and reproducing

apparatus and equipment

3,037

1,885

+1,152

+61

/Commodity divisions