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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1989

FURTHER ANALYSES OF COMMODITY BY COUNTRY SHOWED

INCREASES IN

CENT): THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING TO THE USA (BY $372 MILLION OR 3 PER CENT) AND TO JAPAN (BY $352 MILLION OR 50 PER

(BY $75 ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS TO THE USA (BY $124 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT) AND TO SINGAPORE MILLION OR 37 PER CENT); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $107 MILLTON FER CENT); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES, AND OTHER ARTICLES PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS TO JAPAN (BY $192 MILLION PER CENT).

55

MAINLY

OF OR 23

DECREASES HOWEVER,

METALLIFEROUS WERE RECORDED IN

ORES AND

91 PER CENT): SCRAP TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $37 MILLION OR METAL

MILLION PER CENT) AND TO THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $8 MILLION OR 72

27 PER POWER GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT TO SINGAPORE (BY $28 OR 79

PER CENT); AND FOOTWEAR TO THE USA (BY $22 MILLION OR CENT).

AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE PRESENTED IN

TABLE 2.

INCREASED IN IMPORTS CARRIED BY AIR FROM ALL MAJOR SUPPLIERS

1988. THE SAME PERIOD IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 OVER VALUE

FROM IN

CENT), SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE IMPORTS INDIA (+58 PER CENT), ITALY (+48 PER CENT), THE USA (+36 TAIWAN (+27 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+25 PER CENT),

LARGEST AND

AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM JAPAN AND SWITZERLAND, THE THE THIRD LARGEST SUPPLIERS (THE SECOND BEING THE USA), ALSO INCREASED BY 12 PER CENT AND 11 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN VALUE.

REGISTERED

$1,796

AND

PER

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE FOR AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY

APPARATUS MACHINERY, ELECTRICAL OR

CENT); 31 PER MILLION APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1.748 MILLION OR 14 CENT); TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES (BY $988 MILLION INCLUDING

OR

AND OTHER WARES, 225 PER CENT); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES,

GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' MAINLY JEWELLERY, ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS (BY $913 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT).

DECREASES HOWEVER,

OF RAW INORGANIC

AND $5

WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS

FERTILISERS HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS (BY $123 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT);

(BY $21 MILLION OR 5 PER CENT) AND CRUDE CHEMICALS CRUDE MINERALS (EXCLUDING COAL, PETROLEUM AND PRECIOUS STONES (BY MILLION OR 51 PER CENT).

/ANALYSED BY