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SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1988

THE 1987,

VOLUME OF WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS PER CENT IN THE

EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF COMPARISON ΤΟ THE 12 MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1988 WITH THE 12 MONTHS ENDING JANUARY DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 22 PER CENT INCREASED BY 47 PER CENT, GIVING AN INCREASE OF 32 VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 33 PER CENT.

DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND WHILE

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT AND 2 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, THOSE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 4 PER CENT.

WITH

DOMESTIC JANUARY

AND VOLUME OF THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUB EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP FOR JANUARY 1988 AS COMPARED 1987 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

OF

JANUARY

THE DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME AS CAN BE SEEN FROM TABLE 1, MANY COMMODITY GROUPS INCREASED IN JANUARY 1988 COMPARED WITH 1987, INCLUDING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+38 PER CENT); WATCHES AND

SCRAP

PER CLOCKS (+31 PER CENT); METAL ORES AND

(+26

METAL CENT);

(+15 PER MANUFACTURES (+17 PER CENT); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES CENT); CLOTHING (+6 PER CENT) AS

AS TEXTILE FABRICS (+5

CENT).

WELL

CENT);

PER

NEVERTHELESS, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME WERE

RADIOS RECORDED IN

OF ALL KINDS (-30 PER CENT); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (-15 PER

TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND

CENT) RELATED ARTICLES (-2 FER CENT); FOOTWEAR (-1

AS WELL AS TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (-1 PER CENT).

PER

PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF MOST COMMODITY IN JANUARY 1988 COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1987.

GROUPS

INCREASED

CENT); TEXTILE

PER (+7

THESE INCLUDED METAL ORES AND SCRAP (+9 PER

ALL YARN AND THREAD (+7 PER CENT); RADIOS OF

KINDS

CENT); METAL MANUFACTURES (+6 PER CENT); CLOTHING (+6 PER CENT); FOOTWEAR (+6 PER CENT); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (+6 PER CENT) TEXTILE FABRICS (+6 PER CENT); TEXTLES MADE-UPS AND RELATED AS WELL AS ARTICLES (+5 PER CENT); WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+3 PER CENT) DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+3 PER CENT).

THE PRICES OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS REMAINED ALMOST UNCHANGED.

IMPORTS BY

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF END-USE CATEGORY FOR JANUARY 1988 AS COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1987 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 2.

INCREASED BY 10

AS PRESENTED IN TABLE 2, IMPORTED FOODSTUFFS PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS IN JANUARY 1988 COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1987.

AS

SIGNIFICANT GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN VEGETABLES; AND CEREAL PREPARATIONS OTHER THAN RICE, WHEAT AND FLOUR SUGAR. HOWEVER, DECREASES IN IMPORT VOLUME WERE REGISTERED BEAN OIL, PEANUT OIL AND LARD AS WELL AS LIVE POULTRY.

CEREALS WELL AS FOR SOYA

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