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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1989

MERCHANDISE TRADE BY AIR IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989

MILLION THE SAME AIRBORNE (SATURDAY 1

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE BY AIR WAS VALUED AT $111,019 IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989, 20 PER CENT HIGHER THAN THAT IN PERIOD IN 1988, ACCORDING TO THE SUMMARY STATISTICS ON MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 RELEASED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

IMPORTS CENT

IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989, AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS, RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 12 PER CENT, 21 PER CENT AND 28 PER RESPECTIVELY IN VALUE OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1988.

AND

RE-EXPORTS

AS

AND

THEIR SHARES IN TOTAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS, IMPORTS AND WERE 29 PER CENT,

PER 20 PER CENT AND 16

CENT RESPECTIVELY, COMPARED TO THE CORRESPONDING SHARES OF 27 PER CENT, 21 PER CENT 17 PER CENT IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1988.

IN

152,411

AND

OF TERMS

*To IMPORTS AMOUNTED WEIGHT, AIRBORNE TONNES, WHILE TOTAL AIRBORNE EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS RE-EXPORTS) AMOUNTED TO 186,380 TONNES, WHICH WERE 9 PER CENT PER CENT RESPECTIVELY HIGHER THAN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1988.

AND 5

AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN

TABLE 1.

IN

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE DOMESTIC SAME EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 OVER THE

(+22 TAIWAN PERIOD IN 1988, PARTICULARLY JAPAN (+29 PER CENT),

AND CENT),

PER

CENT} (+21

CENT), SINGAPORE (+16 PER NETHERLANDS (+15 PER CENT).

CANADA

PER

THE

11

REPUBLIC (THE SECOND CENT PER

AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE USA AND THE FEDERAL

MARKETS THE LARGEST AND THE THIRD LARGEST

INCREASED BY ALSO

CENT AND RESPECTIVELY IN VALUE.

OF BEING

GERMANY,

JAPAN),

OR

7 PER

VALUE OF

OFFICE

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN THE AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $1,182 MILLION APPLIANCES AND 14 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND

PARTS

PER CENT); THEREOF (BY $441 MILLION OR 16 ELECTRICAL MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $419 MILLION

PER CENT);

ARTICLES, AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED

WARES, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' JEWELLERY, ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS (BY $398 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT).

12 MAINLY

INCLUDING AND OTHER

(BY

DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL $46 MILLION

POWER OR 79 PER CENT); $33 I BY EQUIPMENT

MILLION OR 36 PER CENT); MILLION OR 23 PER CENT).

SCRAP

GENERATING

AND

MACHINERY

FOOTWEAR

AND (BY $22

/FURTHER ANALYSES