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TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1987

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY CATEGORIES, INCREASES IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED MAINLY IN CLOTHING (BY $4 858 MILLION OR 36 PER CENT) PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $1 602 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS WARES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS (BY $998 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT) AS WELL AS ELECTRICAL MACHINERY APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $571 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT).

DECREASES IN VALUE WERE RECORDED IN METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $370 MILLION OR 66 PER CENT); POWER GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (BY $12 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT) AS WELL AS NON-FERROUS METALS (BY $4 MILLION OR 49 PER CENT).

FURTHER ANALYSIS BY COUNTRY WITHIN COMMODITY CATEGORIES REVEALED INCREASES IN AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING TO THE U.S. (BY $1 921 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $828 MILLION OR 68 PER CENT) PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $239 MILLION OR 50 PER CENT) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $171 MILLION OR 47 PER CENT); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS TO THE U.S. (BY $346 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT) AS WELL AS ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF TO SINGAPORE (BY $103 MILLION OR 93 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP TO THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $238 MILLION OR 78 PER CENT) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC GERMANY (BY $108 MILLION OR 79 PER CENT); POWER GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT TO THE U.S. (BY $29 MILLION OR 49 PER CENT) AS WELL AS NON-FERROUS METALS TO TAIWAN (BY $4 MILLION OR 55 PER CENT).

AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE PRESENTED IN TABLE 2.

INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $3 133 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT); NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY $2 680 MILLION OR 62 PER CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $1 838 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES (BY $792 MILLION OR 74 PER CENT).

IN CONTRAST, DECREASES WERE NOTED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $440 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT) POWER GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (BY $225 MILLION OR 39 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $97 MILLION OR 80 PER CENT).

/INCREASES WERE