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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1990

TABLE 3: CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY

COMPARING MAY 1990 WITH MAY 1989

COMPARING JAN-MAY 1990 WITH JAN-MAY 1989

END-USE CATEGORY

UNIT

UNIT

VALUE

VALUE VOLUME

VALUE

VALUE

VOLUME

%

%

%%%

%%%

%%

%

FOODSTUFFS

CONSUMER GOODS

7

1

6

-10

1

-11

43

3

38

31

5

26

RAW MATERIALS AND

SEMI-MANUFACTURES

5

-3

4

-6

FUELS

61

49

85

13

64

CAPITAL GOODS

14

1

13

5

2

ALL COMMODITIES

25

3

21

13

REVISED ESTIMATES OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FOR 1988, 1989

THE REVISED ESTIMATES OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP) FOR 1989 WERE RELEASED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (FRIDAY).

AND

1988 TODAY

THE REVISED FIGURES ARE PRESENTED IN TABLES 1 AND 2. REVISED EXPENDITURE-BASED GDP ESTIMATES FOR 1988 AND 1989 (TABLE 1)

GDP THE REVISED PRELIMINARY ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENDITURE-BASED

1989 PRICES FOR

MILLION, MARKET

IS #253,136 AT CONSTANT (1980) REPRESENTING AN UPWARD REVISION OF $1,037 MILLION OR 0.4 PER CENT FROM THE PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES RELEASED IN MARCH.

HOWEVER, THE GROWTH RATE IN REAL TERMS OF THE EXPENDITURE-BASED GDP FOR 1989 HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY REVISED DOWNWARDS TO 2.3 PER CENT 2.5 PER CENT, MAINLY DUE TO A RELATIVELY LARGER UPWARD REVISION IN THE GDP ESTIMATE FOR 1988 THAN FOR 1989.

FROM

/ESTIMATES FOR