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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1990

PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN JULY 1990

*

WHILE

OF

THE

THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 3 PER CENT, OF RE-EXPORTS GREW BY 10 PER CENT IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS

то ACCORDING AS COMPARED

1989, WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THAT 1990

TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THERE WAS AN OVERALL INCREASE OF CENT IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 4 PER IN VOLUME TERMS.

5 PER CENT

THE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IS DERIVED FROM THE GROWTH IN TRADE VALUES, HAVING DISCOUNTED THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES.

OF COMPARISON, AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 2 PER CENT AND 3 AS PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, WHILE THOSE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 2 PER CENT.

RATIO OF TOTAL A RESULT, THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX (EXPRESSED AS A EXPORT PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX) INCREASED BY 1 PER CENT.

ACCOUNT

PRICES ARE BASED ON UNIT VALUES WHICH DO NOT TAKE INTO CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OR QUALITY OF GOODS TRADED, EXCEPT FOR SOME SELECTED COMMODITIES

SPECIFICATION

AVAILABLE.

FOR WHICH

PRICE

INDEXES

ARE

OF

TOTAL

COMPARING THE MONTH OF JULY 1990 WITH JULY 1989, THE VOLUME

OF RE-EXPORTS DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 4 PER CENT, WHILE THAT INCREASED BY 12 PER CENT. TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THE VOLUME OF EXPORTS INCREASED BY 5 PER CENT.

THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 10 PER CENT. PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ROSE BY 1 PER CENT

PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. INCREASED BY 1 PER CENT.

AND 2

THE SAME OVER AND RE-EXPORTS PRICES IMPORT

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP FOR JULY 1990 AS JULY 1989 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

THE

EXPORTS

OF

MOST

OF DOMESTIC COMPARED WITH

GROUPS

DOMESTIC

AND

PER

(-3

VOLUME

COMMODITY OF DOMESTIC DECREASED IN JULY 1990 AS COMPARED WITH JULY 1989, INCLUDING RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-36 PER CENT); METAL MANUFACTURES (-22 PER CENT);

HANDBAGS GOODS, ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (-22 PER CENT); TRAVEL SIMILAR ARTICLES (-19 PER CENT); TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (-16

ARTICLES CENT); FOOTWEAR (-15 PER CENT); TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED (-12 PER CENT); METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-7 PER CENT); AND CLOTHING

EXPORT VOLUME PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, INCREASES IN DOMESTIC

CENT); AND ELECTRONIC WERE RECORDED IN WATCHES AND CLOCKS (+6 PER COMPONENTS (+3 PER CENT).

/THE PRICES