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AS CAN BE SEEN FROM TABLE 1,

MOST

COMMODITY

NOVEMBER 1986.

GROUPS

INCREASED

A

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1988

DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF

1987

WITH COMPARED

OF PRICES

NOVEMBER IN

PER (+11

CENT); TEXTILE THESE INCLUDED METAL ORES AND SCRAP

ALL KINDS (+8 PER CENT); YARN AND THREAD (+8 PER CENT); RADIOS OF

CENT); FOOTWEAR (+6 CLOTHING (+7 PER CENT); TEXTILE FABRICS (+7 PER PER CENT); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (+5 PER METAL

AND MANUFACTURES (+2 PER

MADE-UPS TEXTILE CENT); ARTICLES (+2 PER CENT); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+1 AS WELL AS WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+1 PER CENT).

CENT); RELATED PER CENT)

HOWEVER, A DECREASE IN DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES WAS ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (-1 PER CENT).

RECORDED IN

THE DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME OF MANY COMMODITY

INCLUDING 1986, IN NOVEMBER 1987 COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER

(+33 MANUFACTURES

AND

GROUPS INCREASED METAL ORES

PER

CENT);

CENT);

CENT); SCRAP

METAL (+41 PER ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+33 PER CENT); TEXTILE FABRICS (+17 PER

(+8 PER WATCHES AND CLOCKS

CENT); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+3 PER CENT) AS WELL AS CLOTHING (+1 PER CENT).

RADIOS (-12

AND

RECORDED IN THREAD ARTICLES

AND

HOWEVER, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME WERE

OF ALL KINDS

TEXTILE (-19 PER CENT);

YARN PER CENT); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR (-4 PER CENT); FOOTWEAR (-3 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TEXTILE MADE-UPS RELATED ARTICLES (-1 PER CENT).

ARE

IMPORTS BY THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF END-USE CATEGORY FOR NOVEMBER 1987 AS COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER 1986 SHOWN IN TABLE 2.

AS

PRESENTED

IN TABLE

2

OF

IMPORT PRICES

ALL END-USE 1987 AS COMPARED WITH CATEGORIES ROSE IN NOVEMBER

NOVEMBER 1986, PER TO 18

CENT FOR RANGING FROM 2 PER CENT FOR FOODSTUFFS

FUELS, PRICES OF WHICH WAS PARTLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE RELATIVELY LOW IMPORT FUELS IN NOVEMBER 1986.

IMPORTED FOODSTUFFS INCREASED BY 18 PER CENT IN NOVEMBER 1987 COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER 1986. SIGNIFICANT

IN SUGAR:

AND TEA

COFFEE AS RECORDED

WELL

AS

FISH

IN VOLUME TERMS GROWTH WAS AND FISH

PREPARATIONS.

/HOWEVER, DECREASES