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ARTICLES OF APPAREL

AND CLOTHING

22

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1989

ACCESSORIES

2,671

2,183

+

488

+ 22

MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED

ARTICLES (MAINLY BABY

CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES

AND SPORTING GOODS)

2,426

1,655

771

+ 47

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND

SOUND RECORDING AND

REPRODUCING APPARATUS

AND EQUIPMENT

2,035

1, 103

932

+ 85

PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS,

EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES

AND CLOCKS

1,002

739

263

+ 36

0

EXTERNAL TRADE PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS FOR DECEMBER AND 1988

THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS GREW BY 9 PER CENT AND 46 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN THE YEAR OF 1988 AS COMPARED WITH 1987, ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THERE WAS AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 26 PER CENT IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 27 PER IN VOLUME TERMS.

CENT

THE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IS DERIVED FROM THE GROWTH IN TRADE VALUES, HAVING DISCOUNTED THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES.

AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 2 PER CENT AND 3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, WHILE THOSE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 4 PER CENT.

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

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

INDEXES AVAILABLE.

PRICE

ARE

/COMPARING THE