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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1986

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HALF-YEARLY AIR MERCHANDISE TRADE STATISTICS OUT

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TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE BY AIR FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1986, MUSI 353 777 MILLION, INCREASED BY 17 PER CENT AS COMPARED TH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, ACCORDING TO SUMMARY STATISTICS UN A.RBORNE MERCHANDISE TRADE RELEASED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

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IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1986, 28 PER CENT OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS, 21 UR CENT OF IMPORTS AND 19 PER CENT OF RE-EXPORTS, ALL BY VALUE, WERE CARRIED BY AIR. IN TERMS OF WEIGHT, AIRBORNE IMPORTS AMOUNTED TO 100 194 TONNES OR 0.5 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL IMPORT TONNAGE, WHILE TOTAL AIRBORNE EXPORTS TOTALLED 142 518 TONNES OR 1.5 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL EXPORT TONNAGE,

CHANGES IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MAJOR MARKETS ARE GIVEN IN TABLE 1.

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY CATEGORIES, INCREASES 'N AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED MAINLY IN CLOTHING (BY $1 848 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT): PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (97 $691 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT) OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $574 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT) AS WEL. AS MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS (BY $321 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT).

DECREASES IN VALUE WERE RECORDED IN METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $268 MILLION OR 78 PER CENT) POWER GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (BY $9 MILLION OR 18 PER CENT) AS WELL AS METALWORKING MACHINERY (BY $8 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT).

FURTHER ANALYSIS BY COUNTRY WITHIN COMMODITY CATEGORIES REVEALED INCREASES IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING TO THE U.S. (BY $748 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $378 MILLION OR 77 PER CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO THE U.S. (BY $134 MILLION OR 11 PER CENT) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $89 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT) OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT TO THE U.S. (BY $313 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT) AS WELL AS MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS AND SILVERSMITHS WARES AND OTHER ARTICLES, OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS TO THE U.S. (BY 396 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT).

/HOWEVER, DECREASES

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