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MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1988

NOVEMBER EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS RELEASED

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN NOVEMBER 1987,

1N VALUE TERMS GREW BY 30 PER CENT

VALUE STATISTICS TRADE ACCORDING TO STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (MONDAY).

AT $68,914 MILLION, COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER 1986, RELEASED BY THE CENSUS AND

COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER

IN

1986, DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED

1987 WHILE VALUE TERMS BY 15 PER CENT TO $17,076 MILLION IN NOVEMBER

TO $17,567 MILLION, BRINGING TOTAL RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 43 PER CENT

WAS 28 PER CENT EXPORTS IN NOVEMBER 1987 TO $34,644 MILLION, WHICH HIGHER THAN IN NOVEMBER 1986.

IMPORTS INCREASED IN

VALUE

ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, TERMS BY 32 PER CENT TO $34,270 MILLION IN NOVEMBER 1987.

1987 WITH THE SAME MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN

COMPARING THE PERIOD JANUARY TO NOVEMBER PERIOD IN 1986, DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO ALL VALUE TERMS.

THE WITHI

MARKETS THE

FASTEST GROWTH JN INCLUDED JAPAN (+57 PER CENT), CHINA (+56 PER CENT), CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (+43 PER CENT), AND GERMANY (+37 PER CENT).

EXPORTS DOMESTIC FRANCE (+44 PER THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF

THE U.S. GREW

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S LARGEST MARKET, BY 14 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS.

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MOST MAJOR MARKETS

INCREASED

SIGNIFICANTLY ALTHOUGH THE

IN VALUE TERMS BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1986 AND NOVEMBER 1987, YEAR-ON-YEAR GROWTH RATES FOR SOME OF THE MARKETS HAVE SLOWED DOWN

RECENT MONTHS.

IN

ROSE BY 42 PER DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FRANCE

THE CENT,

UNITED KINGDOM BY 36 PER 38 PER

CENT, 30 PER CENT, AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY BY 24 PER CENT.

CENT, CHINA BY BY SINGAPORE

ON THE OTHER HAND, DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE

U.S.

DECREASED BY

1 PER CENT,

ALL MAJOR PERIOD

IMPORTS IN THE PERIOD JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1987 FROM SUPPLIERS INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE SAME IN 1986.

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN SIGNIFICANT

(+54 PER (ENT), CHINA (+14 PER REPUBLIC OF KOREA

CENT), (+34 PER CENT). (+41 PER CENT), ITALY (+39 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.

IMPORTS

FROM

THE TAIWAN

FROM REPUBLIC OF

ALL

SUPPLIERS MAJOR

KOREA

(+55

PER

BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1986 AND NOVEMBER 1987, THE VALUE

ESPECIALLY

PER (+37

AND CENT)

(+34 PER CENT), THE U.S.

INCREASED, (ENT).

(+33

ITALY PER

OF IMPORTS THOSE FROM THE CHINA CENT).

SWITZERLAND

(+33 PER CENT).

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