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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1987

PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF MARCH EXTERNAL TRADE

THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ROSE BY 28 PER CENT IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1987 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (SATURDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT INDICATE.

TOGETHER WITH A 49 PKR CENT INCREASE IN THE VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS AT THE SAME TIME, THERE WAS AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 37 PER CENT IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS.

IMPORTS INCREASED BY 36 PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS. ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 3 PER CENT AND 2 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, SO THAT THE PRICES TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT.

PRICES OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 4 PER CENT. AS A

OF

RESULT, THE TERMS PRICE INDEX

OF TRADE INDEX (EXPRESSED AS A RATIO OF THE TOTAL EXPORT TO THE IMPORT PRICE INDEX) DROPPED BY 1 PER CENT.

PRICES ARE BASED ON UNIT VALUES WHICH DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OR QUALITY OF GOODS TRADED, EXCEPT FOR SOME SELECTED COMMODITIES FOR WHICH SPECIFICATION PRICE INDEXES ARE COMPILED. THE VOLUME OF TRADE 15 DERIVED FROM TRADE VALUES BY DISCOUNTING THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES.

EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF COMPARISON

TO THE 12 MONTHS ENDING MARCH 1987 WITH THE 12 MONTHS ENDING MARCH 1986, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 22 PER CENT, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 27 PER CENT, GIVING AN INCREASE OF 24 PER CENT IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 22 PER CENT. OVER THE SAME PERIOD, BOTH THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT, WHILE IMPORT PRICES ROSE BY 5 PER CENT.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP FOR MARCH 1987 AS COMPARED WITH MARCH 1986 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

WITH MARCH PER (ENT);

AS CAN BE SEEN FROM TABLE 1, PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF MOST COMMODITY GROUPS INCREASED IN MARCH 1987 COMPARED 1986. THESE INCLUDED CLOTHING (+9 PER CENT); FOOTWEAR (+6 DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+6 PER CENT); TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (+5 PER (ENT); TEXTILE FABRICS (+1 PER CENT); WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+3 PER CENT); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (+2 PER CENT); TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD {+1 PER (ENT) AS WELL AS METAL MANUFACTURES (+1 PER CENT). DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES WERE, HOWEVER, RECORDED

IN ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS 1-8

PER CENT); METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-7 PER CENT) AS WELL AS RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-1 PER CENT).

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