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ON

THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1989

IN PERCENTAGE TERMS, INDUSTRIES WITH THE LARGEST INCREASES THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1988 WERE PRODUCTS OF PETROLEUM AND COAL (+170.7 PER CENT); TRANSPORT (+57.8 PER CENT); CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+32.2 MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (+27.3 PER CENT); AND PAPER PRODUCTS, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING (+16.3 PER CENT).

IN

EQUIPMENT PER CENT);

AND PAPER

IN THE AS COMPARED

ON THE OTHER HAND, A FEW INDUSTRIES RECORDED DECREASES VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989 WITH THE SAME QUARTER OF 1988.

PER CENT); CORK PRODUCTS,

AND RUBBER

THEY WERE : PLASTIC PRODUCTS (-$460 MILLION OR -14.7 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS (-367 MILLION OR -0.5 FOOTWEAR ( -$32 MILLION OR -10.9 PER CENT); WOOD AND FURNITURE AND FIXTURES ( -$32 MILLION OR -14.8 PER CENT); PRODUCTS (-$10 MILLION OR -26.1 PER CENT).

ORIGINATING 17.6 PER 1988, WHILE DOMESTIC 888 MILLION OR

OUTSIDE THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, DOMESTIC EXPORTS FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL FISHING DECREASED BY $37 MILLION OR CENT AS COMPARED WITH THE SECOND QUARTER OF EXPORTS OF ELECTRICITY INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY BY 108.3 PER CENT.

THE OVER

FROM

ORIGINATING

SAME

PERIOD

OF COMPARISON,

DOMESTIC

EXPORTS

LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL, DECREASED BY $2 MILLION OR 70.0 PER CENT.

THE ABOVE STATISTICS ON DOMESTIC EXPORTS ANALYSED BY INDUSTRIAL SIX-DIGIT MERCHANDISE EXPORT ORIGIN ARE DERIVED BY REGROUPING ALL ITEMS UNDER THE EXTERNAL TRADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM ACCORDING TO THE NORMALLY PRODUCED. INDUSTRIES IN WHICH THESE MERCHANDISE ITEMS ARE TRANSACTIONS IN GOLD AND SPECIE ARE EXCLUDED.

BY INDUSTRIAL INTERNATIONAL STANDARD (1.8.I.C.1, AS INTERNATIONAL TRADE TRADE

THE CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS ORIGIN IS STRUCTURED UPON THE UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OF ALL ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES DISTINCT FROM THE

NATIONS STANDARD UNITED

IS ADOPTED (S.I.T.C.) CLASSIFICATION STATISTICS REPORTS.

WHICH

IN

THE

+

REGULAR

THESE RECLASSIFIED

CAUTION SHOULD BE TAKEN WHEN REFERRING TO

MAY REQUIRE SEVERAL STATISTICS.

MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS CERTAIN

IN SUCH CASES, INTERMEDIATE PROCESSING STAGES IN THEIR PRODUCTION.

NOT THE SOLE THE INDUSTRY IN WHICH AN ITEM IS FINALLY PRODUCED IS

HOWEVER, THE TOTAL CONTRIBUTOR ΤΟ THE EXPORT VALUE OF THAT ITEM. VALUE OF THE ITEM HAS WHOLLY BEEN ALLOCATED TO THAT INDUSTRY IN RECLASSIFICATION.

BESIDES,

THIS

A

THE CLASSIFICATION OF A MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEM TO PARTICULAR INDUSTRY DOES NOT IMPLY THAT THE ENTIRE EXPORT VALUE OF THE ITEM IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ESTABLISHMENTS OF THAT

BE VALUE

DUE

BY TO PRODUCTION PART OF THE CLASSIFIED UNDER OTHER INDUSTRIES AS SECONDARY PRODUCTS.

MAY

INDUSTRY, SINCE

ESTABLISHMENTS

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