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PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN APRIL

6 PER AS

THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS GREW BY CENT AND 32 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1989

WITH

TO STATISTICS THE SAME PERIOD IN 1988, ACCORDING

DEPARTMENT. (SUNDAY) TODAY

COMPARED RELEASED

BY THE CENSUS

AND

STATISTICS

TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THERE WAS AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 20 CENT IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 23 PER IN VOLUME TERMS.

PER

CENT

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

OF COMPARISON + AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 3 PER CENT AND 6 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, WHILE THOSE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 4 PER CENT.

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

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ACCOUNT

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

PRICE INDEXES COMMODITIES FOR WHICH SPECIFICATION AVAILABLE.

OF

ARE

THE VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS EXPORTS AND RE- TERMS.

COMPARING THE MONTH OF APRIL 1989 WITH APRIL 1988, DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 6 FER CENT, AND THAT INCREASED BY 28 PER CENT. HENCE, TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS TOGETHER, TOTAL EXPORTS GREW BY 18 PER CENT IN VOLUME IMPORT VOLUME ALSO INCREASED BY 15 PER CENT.

PRICES OF DOMESTIC

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 3 PER CENT AND 7 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. PRICES OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 4 PER CENT.

OF

DOMESTIC

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP FOR APRIL 1989 AS COMPARED WITH APRIL 1988 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

AS CAN BE SEEN FROM TABLE 1, THE DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME OF SOME APRIL 1988, COMMODITY GROUPS INCREASED IN APRIL 1989 COMPARED WITH

SCRAP INCLUDING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+23 PER CENT); METAL ORES AND

CLOTHING (+12 PER (+20 PER CENT); TEXTILE FABRICS (+13 PER CENT);

CENT); METAL MANUFACTURES TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (+11 PER CENT);

CENT). (+8 PER CENT); AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+4 PER

NEVERTHELESS, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT VOLUME WERE RECORDED AND RELATED IN RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-37 PER CENT); TEXTILE MADE-UPS

ARTICLES ARTICLES (-31 PER CENT); TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR

CENT); AND (-26 PER CENT); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (-22 PER FOOTWEAR (-22 PER CENT).

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