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PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN MARCH

BY 11 PER THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS GREW

FIRST QUARTER OF 1988 AS CENT AND 40 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN THE

THE STATISTICS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, ACCORDING TO RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

25 PER CENT

TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THERE WAS AN OVERALL INCREASE OF CENT IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 20 PER IN VOLUME TERMS.

THE VOLUME OF TRADE

DERIVED FROM TRADE DISCOUNTING THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES.

IS

VALUES

BY

PERIOD OF COMPARISON,

OF

AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS BOTH ROSE BY 3 PER CENT,

AS A RESULT, THE TERMS WHILE THOSE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 5 PER CENT

OF TOTAL EXPORT PRICE INDEX TO TRADE INDEX (EXPRESSED AS A RATIO IMPORT PRICE INDEX) DROPPED BY 1 PER CENT.

+

ACCOUNT PRICES ARE BASED ON UNIT VALUES WHICH DO NOT TAKE INTO

OF GOODS TRADED, EXCEPT FOR CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OR QUALITY

PRICE INDEXES ARE SOME SELECTED COMMODITIES FOR WHICH SPECIFICATION AVAILABLE.

COMPARING

THE MONTH

OF

VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED

PER

WITH

MARCH

THE

MARCH 1988

1987, BY 6 PER CENT. HOWEVER, THE INCREASED BY 30

CENT. VOLUME

HENCE, TAKING OF RE-EXPORTS

PER DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER TOTAL EXPORTS GREW BY 11 CENT IN VOLUME TERMS.

DOMESTIC

BY INCREASED

16 PER IMPORT VOLUME

CENT. DURING THE SAME THE PRICES COMPARISON, BOTH

OF

EXPORTS AND PERIODS OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 3 PER CENT. PRICES OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 5 PER CENT.

SINGLE

MONTHS

MAY

RESPECTIVE

VOLUME

GROWTH

CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN IN INTERPRETING THE CHANGES IN THE

AS THE MONTH, OF BILATERAL TRADE IN ANY

FOR

BE

TO RATES

INDIVIDUAL

SUBJECT

CONSIDERABLE OF THE FIRST FLUCTUATIONS. IN PARTICULAR, THE TRADE FIGURES IN EACH

THE TIMING OF THE THREE MONTHS OF THE YEAR ARE USUALLY AFFECTED BY LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS, WHICH OCCURRED IN MID-FEBRUARY THIS YEAR.

AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE

1987 EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP FOR MARCH 1988 AS COMPARED WITH MARCH ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

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