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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1988

IN VALUE

IMPORTS INCREASED ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, TERMS BY 41 PER CENT TO $33,150 MILLION IN JANUARY 1988.

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE BETWEEN JANUARY 1987 AND JANUARY 1988.

TERMS

SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN DOMESTIC

CENT, FRANCE SINGAPORE, BY 46 PER CENT, CHINA BY 44 PER

AND CENT, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY BY 29 PER CENT, KINGDOM BY 19 PER CENT.

EXPORTS

то

BY 32 PER THE UNITED

A 5 PER CENT GROWTH WAS RECORDED FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS KONG'S LARGEST MARKET, THE USA.

то HONG

BETWEEN JANUARY 1987 AND JANUARY 1988, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS SWITZERLAND FROM ALL MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED, ESPECIALLY THOSE FROM

PER CENT), (+107 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+81

THE

OF REPUBLIC (+57 PER CENT), THE USA (+50 PER CENT) AND FRANCE (+45 PER CENT).

KOREA

DURING THE SAME PERIOD, RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN, THE FEDERAL

AUSTRALIA, THE REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

UNITED KINGDOM AND TAIWAN INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS BY 90 PER CENT, 68 PER CENT, 65 PER CENT AND 63 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

89 PER CENT,

IN

THE CHANGES IN CARE SHOULD BE EXERCISED IN INTERPRETING VALUE OF BILATERAL TRADE

ANY SINGLE MONTH, AS THE RESPECTIVE

MAY GROWTH RATES FOR INDIVIDUAL MONTHS

CONSIDERABLE

THE

BC

ΤΟ SUBJECT

FLUCTUATIONS.

FIRST TWO MONTHS

OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR

WHILE YEAR,

THIS

IN PARTICULAR, THE TRADE FIGURES IN THE THE YEAR WERE USUALLY AFFECTED BY THE TIMING OF

OCCURRED IN HOLIDAYS, WHICH

LATE JANUARY LAST YEAR THEY OCCURRED IN MID-FEBRUARY.

TO THE

EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF COMPARISON

12 MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1988 WITH THE 12 MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1987, DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 26 PER CENT TO $197,678 MILLION. THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS AT $189,140 MILLION WAS 50 PER CENT HIGHER.

TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, TOTAL EXPORTS ROSE BY 36 PER CENT.

IMPORTS INCREASED BY 38 PER CENT TO $387,582 MILLION,

AS A WHOLF, TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE INCREASED BY 37 PER CENT,

ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE ARE MEASURED AT CURRENT BETWEEN PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES

1 THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON,

SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF THE PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL. TRADE IN JANUARY 1988 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY APRIL 1988.

/THE CHANGES