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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1988

PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS BOTH ROSE BY 3 PER CENT, THE TERMS OF WHILE THOSE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 4 PER CENT. AS A RESULT,

OF TOTAL EXPORT PRICE

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

AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME

ACCOUNT EXCEPT FOR PRICE INDEXES ARE

PRICES ARE BASED ON UNIT VALUES WHICH DO NOT TAKE INTO CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OR QUALITY OF GOODS TRADED, SOME SELECTED COMMODITIES FOR WHICH SPECIFICATION AVAILABLE.

OF

PER

COMPARING THE MONTH OF JULY 1988 WITH JULY 1987, THE VOLUME

CENT AND 43 DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 4 PER

AND EXPORTS

RE-EXPORTS CENT RESPECTIVELY.

VOLUME TERMS. IMPORT TOGETHER, TOTAL EXPORTS GREW BY 22 PER CENT IN VOLUME INCREASED BY 28 PER CENT,

HENCE,

TAKING DOMESTIC

PRICES OF DOMESTIC

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

AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP FOR JULY 1988 AS COMPARED ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

WITH

JULY 1987

THE DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME OF AS CAN BE SEEN FROM TABLE 1

1987, MOST COMMODITY GROUPS DECREASED IN JULY 1988 COMPARED WITH JULY

PER (-43

CENT); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL INCLUDING RADIOS OF ALL KINDS

(-11 PER CENT): APPLIANCES (-14 PER CENT); TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD

GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR TEXTILE FABRICS (-10 PER CENT); TRAVEL

SCRAP ARTICLES (-10 PER CENT); FOOTWEAR (-9 PER CENT); METAL ORES AND

(-5 PER CENT); (-9 PER CENT); TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES AND CLOTHING (-3 PER CENT).

VOLUME WERE MORE COMPONENTS (+40 PER WATCHES AND CLOCKS

HOWEVER, THESE DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT THAN OFFSET BY INCREASES RECORDED IN ELECTRONIC CENT); METAL MANUFACTURES (+26 PER

CENT); AND

(+6 PER CENT).

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