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GUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, IMPORTS OF THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS TRANSPORTED BY AIR EXPERIENCED THE HIGHEST GROWTH (BY $3 015 MILLION OR 38 PER CENT), WHILST IN THE CASE OF EXPORTS BY AIR, CLOTHING RECORDED THE HIGHEST GROWTH (BY $3 682 MILLION OR 35 PER CENT). RE-EXPORTS OF THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS INCREASED BY $2 047 MILLION (OR 70 PER CENT).

AS FOR SEABORNE TRADE WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 59 PER CENT OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE VALUE IN 1984, AN INCREASE OF $59 329 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT OVER 1983 WAS RECORDED. ANALYSED IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, AS MUCH AS 90 PER CENT OF TOTAL TRADE WAS CARRIED BY SEA,

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN SEABORNE TRADE WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS FROM JAPAN (BY $9 736 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT), EXPORTS TO THE U.S. (BY $12 759 MILLION OR 45 PER CENT) AND RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (BY $3 808 MILLION OR 192 PER CENT).

VALUE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS INCREASED RAPIDLY BY $3 595 MILLION OR 33 PER CENT WHEREAS THAT OF EXPORTS OF CLOTHING ALSO ROSE SIGNIFICANTLY BY $8 492 MILLION OR 36 PER CENT. RE-EXPORTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS BY SEA INCREASED BY $1 504 MILLION OR 63 PER CENT IN 1984.

THE REVIEW ALSO PUBLISHES UNIT VALUE AND QUANTUM INDEXES WHICH ARE OFTEN USED TO ASSESS THE MOVEMENTS IN COMMODITY PRICES AND CHANGES IN TRADE VOLUME.

DURING 1984, THE TRADE VOLUMES FOR IMPORTS, DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 15 PER CENT, 17 PER CENT AND 31 PER CENT, RESPECTIVELY, OVER 1983.

SIGNIFICANT GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN THE EXPORT VOLUMES OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (BY 54 PER CENT) AND DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (BY 31 PER CENT), AND IN THE IMPORT AND RE-EXPORT VOLUMES OF CAPITAL GOODS (BY 35 PER CENT AND 55 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY).

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