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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1987

2ND QUARTER EXPORTS FIGURES BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN RELEASED

AND

THE SIX MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY GROUPS IN TERMS OF THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1987 ARE TEXTILES, ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS, WEARING APPAREL, PROFESSIONAL OPTICAL EQUIPMENT, PLASTIC PRODUCTS, AND BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS, FIGURES RELEASED BY THE CENSUS AND DEPARTMENT TODAY (WEDNESDAY) SHOWED.

TOGETHER THEY ACCOUNTED FOR 84 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL DOMESTIC MERCHANDISE EXPORTS DURING THE PERIOD.

IN

STATISTICS

VALUE

OF

INCREASES TEXTILES (+$2,305 OPTICAL

THEY WERE ALSO INDUSTRIES THAT RECORDED THE LARGEST ABSOLUTE VALUE OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1986 (+$3,043 MILLION), ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS MILLION), WEARING APPAREL (+$2,156 MILLION), PROFESSIONAL AND EQUIPMENT (+$659 MILLION), PLASTIC PRODUCTS (+$592 MILLION) AND BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS (+$455 MILLION).

IN PERCENTAGE TERMS, INDUSTRIES WITH THE LARGEST INCREASES OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1986 WERE LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS (+65 PER CENT), CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+50 PER CENT), NON- ELECTRICAL MACHINERY (+48 PER CENT), TEXTILES (+42 PER CENT) AND PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING (+39 PER CENT).

ON THE OTHER HAND, A DRASTIC DECREASE IN DOMESTIC EXPORT VALUE COMPARED WITH THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1986 WAS RECORDED IN THE TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY (-$46 MILLION OR -61 PER CENT).

BESIDES THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, DOMESTIC EXPORTS ORIGINATING FROM AGRICULTURAL, LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY PRODUCTION ROSE SUBSTANTIALLY FROM THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1986 (+76 PER CENT), WHILE THOSE FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL FISHING WENT UP BY 38 PER CENT. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE DOMESTIC EXPORT VALUE OF MINING AND QUARRYING SECTOR DECLINED BY 35 PER CENT.

THESE FIGURES