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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1990

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PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES FOR SEPTEMBER 1990

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THE

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COMPARED MARKEDLY.

VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS REMAINED STABLE IN SEPTEMBER AS

A YEAR EARLIER, WHILE RE-EXPORTS

то CONTINUED

RISE

RETAINED IMPORTS ALSO SHOWED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OVER THE SAME PERIOD.

THESE WERE SHOWN IN THE PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES RELEASED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THE VALUE

AT OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN SEPTEMBER 1990, MILLION, SHOWED VIRTUALLY NO CHANGE OVER SEPTEMBER 1989.

$19,525

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS, HOWEVER, INCREASED BY $4,665 OR 15.3 PER CENT TO $35,100 MILLION.

MILLION

TAKING

TOTAL

DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE

OVER A $4,648 MILLION OR 9.3 PER CENT EXPORTS ROSE BY EARLIER, TO $54,625 MILLION IN SEPTEMBER 1990.

OF

YEAR

CENT

THE

PER VALUE OF IMPORTS GREW BY $6,944 MILLION OR 14.8 OVER A YEAR EARLIER, TO $53,852 MILLION IN SEPTEMBER 1990.

IMPORTS,

AS THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS WAS LARGER THAN THAT OF A VISIBLE TRADE SURPLUS OF $773 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 1.4 PER CENT OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN SEPTEMBER 1990.

THIS COMPARES WITH A SURPLUS OF $3,069 MILLION, EQUIVALENT 6.5 PER CENT OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, RECORDED IN SEPTEMBER 1989.

TO

PUTTING THESE FIGURES IN PERSPECTIVE, THE VALUE OF TOTAL MADE EXPORTS FOR THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1990 WAS $454,294 MILLION, UP OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF $161,600 MILLION AND RE-EXPORTS OF $292,694 MILLION.

COMPARED WITH THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1989, TOTAL EXPORTS GREW

MILLION BY

OR 8.5 PER CENT IN VALUE $35,578

TERMS, WITH DOMESTIC FALLING BY

CENT $2,328 MILLION OR 1.4 PER EXPORTS

AND RE-EXPORTS RISING BY $37,906 MILLION OR 14.9 PER CENT.

OVER THE

BY ROSE SAME PERIOD, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS MILLION OR 8.5 PER CENT, TO $455,869 MILLION.

$35,578

TO 0.3 NINE

A VISIBLE TRADE DEFICIT OF $1,575 MILLION, EQUIVALENT PER CENT OF

FIRST THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN THE MONTHS OF 1990.

0.4 1989.

THIS COMPARES WITH A DEFICIT OF $1,514 MILLION, EQUIVALENT PER CENT OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, RECORDED IN THE SAME PERIOD

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