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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1985

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1984 AIRBORNE MERCHANDISE TRADE STATISTICS RELEASED

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TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE BY AIR IN 1984 WAS VALUED AT $104 181 MILLION, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 27 PER CENT OVER 1983, ACCORDING TO FIGURES RELEASED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE VALUED AT $39 023 MILLION (UP 27%), AIRBORNE IMPORTS AT $47 198 MILLION (UP 27%) AND AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS AT $17 961 MILLION (UP 30%).

IN 1984, 28 PER CENT OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS, 21 PER CENT OF IMPORTS AND 22 PER CENT OF RE-EXPORTS, ALL BY VALUE, WERE CARRIED BY AIR. IN TERMS OF WEIGHT, AIRBORNE IMPORTS AMOUNTED TO 162 457 TONNE OR 0.4 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL IMPORT TONNAGE, WHILE TOTAL AIRBORNE EXPORTS AMOUNTED TO 254 689 TONNE OR 1.6 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL EXPORT TONNAGE.

THE CHANGES IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY MAJOR MARKET ARE GIVEN IN TABLE 1.

BY COMMODITY, INCREASES IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED MAINLY IN CLOTHING (BY $3 682 MILLION OR 35%), OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $2 853 MILLION OR 74%), ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS (BY $778 MILLION OR 29%) AND JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS AND SILVERSMITHS WARES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS (BY $606 MILLION OR 47%).

DECREASES IN VALUE WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $231 MILLION OR 19%) METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $138 MILLION OR 16%) AND LEATHER, LEATHER MANUFACTURES AND DRESSED FURSKINS (BY $6 MILLION OR 39%).

FURTHER ANALYSIS OF COMMODITIES BY COUNTRY REVEALED SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING TO THE U.S. (BY $2 388 MILLION OR 40%) AND JAPAN (BY $691 MILLION OR 72%), OF OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT TO THE U.S. (BY $1 386 MILLION OR 48%) AND THE U.K. (BY $807 MILLION OR 373%), AND OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS TO THE U.S. (BY $185 MILLION OR 16%) AND TAIWAN (BY $110 MILLION OR 48%).

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT TO THE U.S. (BY $250 MILLION OR 29%) AND METALL IFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP TO THE U.K. (BY $311 MILLION OR 45%).

THE CHANGES IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS BY MAJOR SUPPLIER ARE GIVEN IN TABLE 2.

/INCREASES WERE