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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1987

BY COMMODITY CATEGORIES, AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF INCREASED BY $3 133 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT; WHILE FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY AIR, ARTICLES OF APPAREL AND CLOTHING ACCESSORIES

INCREASED BY $4 858 MILLION OR 36 PER CENT. AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS OF ARTICLES OF APPAREL AND CLOTHING ACCESSORIES ROSE BY $1 730 MILLION OR 117 PER CENT.

AS REGARDS SEABORNE TRADE, WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 56 PER CENT IN VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN 1986, AN INCREASE OF $37 864 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT OVER 1985 WAS RECORDED. IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, 91 PER CENT OF TOTAL TRADE WAS CARRIED BY SEA.

A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE WAS RECORDED IN SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM TAIWAN (BY $2 666 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT), AS WELL AS IN SEABORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND SEABORNE RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S. (BY $3 655 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT AND BY $6 012 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY).

BY COMMODITY CATEGORIES, THE VALUE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS OF TEXTILE YARN, FABRICS, MADE-UP ARTICLES AND RELATED PRODUCTS INCREASED BY $5 241 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT AND THAT OF SEABORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS, INCREASED BY $2 937 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT.

AN INCREASE IN SEABORNE RE-EXPORTS WAS RECORDED IN ARTICLES OF APPAREL AND CLOTHING ACCESSORIES (BY $3 826 MILLION OR 64 PER CENT).

THE REVIEW ALSO PUBLISHES UNIT VALUE INDEXES AND QUANTUM INDEXES WHICH ARE OFTEN USED TO ASSESS THE PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE.

DURING 1986, IN TERMS OF TRADE VOLUME, IMPORTS INCREASED BY 14 PER CENT, DOMESTIC EXPORTS ROSE BY 16 PER CENT, WHILE RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 14 PER CENT, AS COMPARED WITH 1985.

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUMES OF TEXTILE FABRICS (BY 47 PER CENT); RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (BY 27 PER CENT); TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (BY 26 PER CENT) AS WELL AS WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY 17 PER CENT).

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE ALSO RECORDED IN THE IMPORT VOLUME OF FUELS (BY 20 PER CENT) AS WELL AS RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI- MANUFACTURES (BY 19 PER CENT).

AS FOR THE VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS, SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR FUELS (BY 176 PER CENT) AS WELL AS FOODSTUFFS (BY 32 PER CENT).

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