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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1988

EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR JUNE RELEASED

GREW

1987, ACCORDING ΤΟ MONTH RELEASED TODAY

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JUNE 1988, AT $83,671 MILLION, BY 33 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS COMPARED WITH JUNE THE DETAILED FIGURES ON VALUE OF TRADE FOR THE (THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

$18,126 MILLION

ΤΟ DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 11 PER CENT IN JUNE 1988, WHILE RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 52 PER CENT TO $22,359 MILLION,

ΤΟ THUS BRINGING TOTAL EXPORTS IN JUNE 1988

$40.485 REPRESENTED AN INCREASE OF 31 PER CENT OVER JUNE 1987.

MILLION,

DURING THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, IMPORTS INCREASED PER CENT TO $43,186 MILLION IN JUNE 1988.

JUNE 1987,

WHICH

BY 34

COMPARING JUNE 1988 WITH

SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE (+39 PER CENT),

FRANCE (+34 PER CENT) AND CHINA (+39 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS PER CENT).

(+34

16

то

PER

JAPAN AND THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM,

CENT, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY GREW LESS RAPIDLY BY 25 PER

DOMESTIC EXPORTS PER CENT AND 13 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. FURTHER,

TERMS VALUE

BY 4 THE U.S.A., THE LARGEST MARKET, DECREASED IN CENT.

VALUE TERMS

IN KOREA PER CENT), THE FEDERAL

CENT).

THE BY 28

IMPORTS FROM ALL MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED IN JUNE 1988 OVER JUNE 1987 ESPECIALLY THOSE FROM THE REPUBLIC OF

PER (+42

ITALY CENT), (+64 PER CENT), THE U.S.A.

FER CENT), SWITZERLAND (+39

TAIWAN

PER (+38 AND JAPAN REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+35 PER CENT) VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM CHINA, THE LARGEST PER CENT.

(+40 CENT),

PER (+32

INCREASED SUPPLIER,

OVER 56

OF GERMANY, CHINA, RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC THE U.S.A, AND AUSTRALIA, INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS THE SAME PERIOD IN 1987, BY 91 PER CENT, 65 PER CENT, 60 PER CENT,

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO PER CENT AND 54 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. TAIWAN AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA GREW LESS RAPIDLY BY 47 PER CENT 30 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

AND

1988, AT

$434, COMPARED WITH THE SAME

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF

PER CENT AS 631 MILLION, INCREASED BY 29 PERIOD IN 1987,

MILLION.

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC DURING THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON,

WHILE RE-EXPORTS EXPORTS INCREASED BY 11 PER CENT TO $95,618 MILLION,

THE THUS, INCREASED BY 46 PER CENT TO $117,321

VALUE OF MILLION. $212,940 TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 28 PER CENT TO

IMPORTS INCREASED BY 29 PER CENT TO $221,691 MILLION.

/COMPARING THE