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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1988

RECORDED

DOMESTIC

INCREASES IN VALUE TERMS WERE

IN AIRBORNE EXPORTS TO MOST MAJOR MARKETS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1988 OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1987, PARTICULARLY IN MARKETS SUCH AS SINGAPORE CENT), TAIWAN (+81 PER CENT), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+41 SWITZERLAND (+20 PER CENT) AND CANADA (+17 PER CENT).

(+91 PER PER CENT),

BY 6 PER RECORDED FOR

AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE U.S.A. INCREASED CENT IN VALUE TERMS, WHILE A DECLINE OF 2 PER CENT WAS AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN.

IN THE VALUE OF

AIRBORNE

(BY

AUTOMATIC DATA ELECTRICAL

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, INCREASES DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED MAINLY IN PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS $1,558 MILLION OR 36 PER CENT); OFFICE MACHINES AND PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $963 MILLION OR 40 PER CENT); MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS $591 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES. OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS (BY #518 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT).

THEREOF (BY

DECREASE WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY`$849 MILLION OR CENT); METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $124 MILLION OR CENT); AND ESSENTIAL OILS AND PERFUME MATERIALS, TOILET,

AND CLEANSING PREPARATIONS (BY $8 MILLION OR 40 PER CENT).

AND

9 PER 68 PER POLISHING

FURTHER ANALYSIS BY COUNTRY WITHIN COMMODITY INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF

REVEALED APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND

PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES CLOCKS TO THE U.S.A. (BY $602 MILLION OR 40 PER

AND CENT) AND FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $141 MILLION OR 36 PER

TO THE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT

CENT); OFFICE TO THE U.S.A. $357 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT) AND TO

(BY SINGAPORE (BY $342 MILLION 154 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF TO THE U.S.A. (BY 1173 MILLION OR 19 CENT);

AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES, AND OTHER ARTICLES PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS ΤΟ JAPAN (BY $255 45 PER CENT).

OR

AND

PER

MAINLY

OF

OR

MILLION

(BY

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING TO THE U.S.A $624 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT) AND TO JAPAN (BY $543 MILLION OR CENT); METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP TO FRANCE

43 PER (BY OR 100 PER CENT) AND ESSENTIAL OILS

351 MILLION AND PERFUME MATERIALS POLISHING

TOILET, AND CLEANSING PREPARATIONS TO THE PHILIPPINES (BY $7 MILLION OR 97 PER CENT).

AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE PRESENTED

TABLE 2.

IN

INCREASED IN IN 1987. WEST PER

IMPORTS CARRIED BY AIR FROM ALL MAJOR SUPPLIERS VALUE TERMS IN THE FIRST HALF ON 1988 OVER THE SAME PERIOD SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM MALAYSIA (+82 PER CENT), SWITZERLAND (+44 PER CENT), JAPAN (+43 CENT), ISRAEL (+40 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (+35 PER CENT).

/ANALYSED BY