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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1987

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APRIL EXTERNAL TRADE FIGURES PUBLISHED

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN APRIL THIS YEAR STOOD AT $59,282

CENT MILLION AND REPRESENTED A 37 PER

GROWTH IN VALUE TERMS WHEN

LAST COMPARED WITH THE SAME MONTH

YEAR, ACCORDING TO TRADE STATISTICS RELEASED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT {WEDNESDAY).

VALUE

TODAY

COMPARED WITH APRIL 1986, DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED IN TERMS BY 28 PER CENT TO $14,539 MILLION IN

1987 APRIL

ΤΟ RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 49 PER CENT

$14.255 MILLION, BRINGING MILLION, WHICH WAS 38 EXPORTS IN APRIL 1987 TO $28,794 HIGHER THAN IN APRIL 1986.

VALUE

WHILE

TOTAL

PER CENT

ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, IMPORTS INCREASED IN VALUR TERMS BY 36 PER CENT TO $30,489 MILLION IN APRIL 1987.

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE BETWEEN APRIL 1986 AND APRIL 1987. SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS RECORDED DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN (+78 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (+69 PER

CENT) AND THE CENT), CHINA (+69 PER CENT), FRANCE (+64 PER

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+44 PER CENT).

TERMS IN

ALL

OF

THE

THE

E

BY

CENT

ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED, ESPECIALLY THOSE FROM THE REPUBLIC KOREA (+74 PER CENT), ITALY (+60 PER CENT), CHINA (+50 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+43 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (+41 PER CENT). RE-EXPORTS TO UNITED KINGDOM, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE U.S.A. REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND CHINA INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY IN VALUE TERMS 140 PER CENT, 123 PER CENT, 77 PER CENT, 60 PER CENT AND 51 RESPECTIVELY.

·

PER

$212,661 THE

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JANUARY TO APRIL 1987 AT MILLION, INCREASED BY 40 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS AS COMPARED WITH SAME FOUR MONTHS IN 1986.

ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 31 PER CENT TO $53,067 MILLION WHILE RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 51 PER CENT TO $50,740 MILLION. THUS THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 40 PER CENT TO $103,806 MILLION. IMPORTS INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS BY 39 PER CENT TO $108,854 MILLION.

THE SAME

FOUR COMPARING JANUARY TO APRIL 1987 WITH

MONTHS IN

TERMS. 1986, DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE THE MARKETS WITH THE FASTEST GROWTH IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCLUDED (+70 PER CHINA (+74 PER CENT), JAPAN (+71 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS

(+47 CENT), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+50 PER CENT) AND FRANCE PER CENT).

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S LARGEST MARKET, THE U.S.A., GREW BY 12 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS.

/IMPORTS IN