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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1986

MOST COMMODITIES EXPORTED TO CHINA DECREASED IN VALUE PARTICULARLY OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $196 MILLION OR 92 PER CENT) TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $109 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT) AS WELL AS ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $46 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT). HOWEVER, INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TEXTILES (BY $46 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $29 MILLION OR 53 PER CENT).

INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $23 MILLION OR 5 PER CENT); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $18 MILLION OR 129 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $8 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT). HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $13 MILLION OR 90 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TEXTILES (BY $8 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT).

DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM WERE RECORDED IN METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $35 MILLION OR 82 PER CENT) AND CLOTHING (BY $35 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT). HOWEVER, AN INCREASE WAS REGISTERED FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF TEXTILES (BY $10 MILLION OR 36 PER CENT).

INCREASES WERE RECORDED AS FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN, IN MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (MAINLY JEWELLERY GOLDSMITHS AND SILVERSMITHS WARES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS AS WELL AS BABY CARRIAGES TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS) (BY $31 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT) AS WELL AS PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $8 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, A DECREASE WAS REGISTERED FOR ESSENTIAL OILS AND PERFUME MATERIALS; TOILET, POLISHING AND CLEANSING PREPARATIONS (BY 96 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT).

THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISION ARE PRESENTED IN TABLE 2.

THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM THE TEN MAJOR SOURCES ARE SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.

DEMAND FOR GOODS IMPORTED FROM CHINA INCREASED IN JANUAR Y 1986 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR. INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR CLOTHING (BY $317 MILLION OR 38 PER CENT) ; TEXTILES (BY $241 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT) AS WELL AS MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS AS WELL AS OFFICE AND STATIONERY SUPPLIES) (BY $110 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TEXTILE FIBRES (OTHER THAN WOOL TOPS) AND THE IR WASTES (BY $107 MILLION OR 48 PER CENT) AS WELL AS PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (BY $58 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT).

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