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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1990

BY

COMPARED

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF IMPORTS END-USE CATEGORY FOR DECEMBER AND THE WHOLE YEAR OF 1989 AS WITH THE CORRESPONDING PERIODS IN 1988 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 2.

AS

3

WERE

PRESENTED IN TABLE 2, IMPORTS OF FOODSTUFFS INCREASED BY PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS IN 1989 COMPARED WITH 1988. INCREASES

AND CEREAL PREPARATIONS RECORDED IN THE IMPORT VOLUME OF CEREALS

PEANUT OIL AND OF TEA (OTHER THAN RICE, WHEAT AND FLOUR); SOYA BEAN OIL, LARD; AND RICE. DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORT VOLUME AND COFFEE; AND FISH AND FISH PREPARATIONS.

THE IMPORT VOLUME OF OVER THE

PERIOD OF COMPARISON, SAME

IMPORT VOLUME CONSUMER GOODS INCREASED BY 17 PER CENT. INCREASES IN

AND HOUSEHOLD TYPE ELECTRICAL WERE NOTED FOR FOOTWEAR; CLOTHING

IMPORT VOLUME APPLIANCES. HOWEVER, THERE WAS A DECREASE IN THE PASSENGER MOTOR CARS.

THE

VOLUME IMPORT

OF RAW

OF

MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES 1988. INCREASES IN BY 4 PER CENT IN 1989 COMPARED WITH INCREASED IMPORT VOLUME WERE NOTED FOR RAW COTTON; SPECIAL TEXTILE FABRICS INDUSTRIAL PURPOSE AND YARN OF MAN-MADE FIBRES, SOME OTHER ITEMS RECORDED DECREASES IN IMPORT VOLUME, NOTABLY CRUDE VEGETABLE MATERIALS; BASE METALS AND IRON AND STEEL.

IMPORTS OF FUELS INCREASED BY 26 PER CENT IN VOLUME

1989 AS COMPARED WITH 1988.

FOR

COMMODITY

AND

ANIMAL

TERMS IN

IN THE CAPITAL GOODS CATEGORY, IMPORT VOLUME INCREASED BY 6 PER CENT IN 1989 AS COMPARED WITH 1988. THERE WERE INCREASES IN THE IMPORT MACHINES AND ELECTRICAL VOLUME OF TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT; MACHINERY.

HOWEVER, DECREASES

OFFICE

RECORDED IN WERE

THE

IMPORT

CONTROLLING

VOLUME INSTRUMENTS

OF

SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, OPTICAL, MEASURING AND AND APPARATUS; AND TEXTILE MACHINERY.

1988, ALL PER CENT); FOODSTUFFS

COMPARING THE IMPORT PRICES IN 1989 WITH THOSE IN

FUELS (+12 SHOWED SOME INCREASES: END-USE CATEGORIES CONSUMER GOODS (+5 PER CENT); CAPITAL GOODS (+3 PER CENT); (+3 PER CENT) AND RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES (+2 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF

YEAR OF 1989 AS FOR CATEGORY BY END-USE

DECEMBER AND THE WHOLE COMPARED WITH THE CORRESPONDING PERIODS IN 1988 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.

OF

AS DEPICTED IN TABLE 3, THE RE-EXPORT VOLUME OF FUELS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY BY 135 PER CENT IN 1989 AS COMPARED WITH 1988. THOSE

SEMI-MANUFACTURES CONSUMER GOODS; CAPITAL GOODS AND RAW MATERIALS AND

CENT RESPECTIVELY. INCREASED BY 34 PER CENT, 17 PER CENT AND 3 PER HOWEVER, THE RE-EXPORT VOLUME OF FOODSTUFFS DECREASED BY 4 PER CENT.

INCREASED IN MATERIALS AND

PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS OF ALL END-USE CATEGORIES 1989 AS COMPARED WITH 1988: FUELS (+11 PER CENT); RAW SEMI-MANUFACTURES (+7 PER CENT); CONSUMER GOODS (+6 PER CENT); CAPITAL GOODS (+5 PER CENT) AND FOODSTUFFS (+5 PER CENT).

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