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TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1988

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF

OF

UNITED RE-EXPORTS TO THE

KINGDOM, THE AUSTRALIA AND GERMANY,

THE JAPAN,

REPBULIC

KOREA INCREASED PER CENT, SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS, OVER THE SAME PERIOD, BY 114 106 PER CENT, 87 PER CENT, 61 PER CENT AND 55 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

TOTAL

JANUARY

MERCHANDISE TRADE IN

то

FEBRUARY $126,016 MILLION, INCREASED BY 34 PER CENT AS COMPARED WITH PERIOD IN 1987.

1988, THE SAME

AT

EXPORTS ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC INCREASED BY 25 PER CENT TO

WHILE RE-EXPORTS $30,117 MILLION INCREASED BY 52 PER CENT TO $34,278 MILLION.

THUS, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 38 $64,395 MILLION.

PER CENT TO

IN

IMPORTS INCREASED BY 29 PER CENT TO $61,620 MILLION.

WITH THE SAME PERIOD COMPARING JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1988 1987, DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS.

WITH THE MARKETS

THE FASTEST

IN GROWTH

DOMESTIC EXPORTS THE UNITED INCLUDED FRANCE (+54 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+48 PER CENT), KINGDOM (+43 PER CENT), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+36 PER CENT) AND CHINA (+26 PER CENT).

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S LARGEST MARKET, THE BY 13 PER CENT.

USA, GREW

ALL

MAJOR

IMPORTS IN JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1988 FROM

SUPPLIERS IN 1987. 1NCREASED IN VALUE TERMS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD

SWITZERLAND (+51 SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM

CENT), FRANCE (+32 PER "ER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA CENT), CHINA (+31 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+28 PER CENT).

PER (+45

THE FEDERAL AND TAIWAN 89 PER CENT,

COMPARISON,

ΤΟ RE-EXPORTS ON THE SAME BASIS OF REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, JAPAN, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS BY 97 PER CENT, 85 PER CENT, 65 PER CENT AND 55 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

TO THE 12 EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF COMPARISON

THE FEBRUARY 1988 WITH

12 MONTHS ENDING FEBRUARY EXPORTS INCREASED BY 26 PER CENT TO $201,326 MILLION.

MONTHS ENDING DOMESTIC 1987,

PER WAS 50

CENT TOGETHER, TOTAL INCREASED BY 36 PER CENT ΤΟ MERCHANDISE TRADE INCREASED BY

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS AT $194,438 MILLION HIGHER. TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS EXPORTS ROSE BY 37 PER CENT. IMPORTS $391,934 MILLION. AS A WHOLE, TOTAL 37 PER CENT.

/ALL TRADE