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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1991

THAT

WERE

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF APRARATUS, EQUIPMENT

DETAILED FIGURES ANALYSED BY COMMODITY BY COUNTRY SHOWED DOMESTIC EXPORTS NOTABLE

IN INCREASES

THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE RECORDED IN OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT TO SINGAPORE

$970 MILLION OR 63%) AND TO THE (BY GERMANY (BY $240 MILLION OR 34%); PHOTOGRAPHIC AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO PARAGUAY (BY $334 MILLION OR 401%) AND TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (RY

AND APPARATUS

APPLIANCES AND MILLION OR 25%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY,

56%); AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF TO SINGAPORE (BY $312 MILLION OR

INCLUDING ARTICLES, MANUFACTURED MISCELLANEOUS

JEWELLERY, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES, SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS TO SINGAPORE (BY $68 MILLION OR 53%).

MAINLY

$285

USA (BY HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING TO THE

12%); FISH, $1.226 MILLION OR 10%) AND TO JAPAN (BY $360 MILLION OR

(BY $93 CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSKS, AND PREPARATIONS THEREOF TO JAPAN MILLION OR 26%); AND FOOTWEAR TO THE USA (BY $46 MILLION OR 38%).

AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE PRESENTED

TABLE 3.

INCREASED

IN

IN

JAPAN

IMPORTS

FROM ALL MAJOR SUPPLIERS CARRIED BY AIR VALUE IN 1990 OVER 1989. SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM MALAYSIA

SINGAPORE (+23%), (+24%), SWITZERLAND (+23%), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+20%) AND (+15%). AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM THE USA, ITALY, TAIWAN AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA ALSO INCREASED BY 11%, 11%, 9% AND 9% RESPECTIVELY.

AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS ARE SHOWN IN

TABLE 4.

NOTABLE

INCREASES

IN

VALUE

AND

AND

ANALYSED

WERE BY COMMODITY 1 REGISTERED FOR AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND OR 10%); APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $2,981 MILLION PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND LOCKS (BY $2,888 MILLION OR 16%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS

(BY SOUND

AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT RECORDING

ARTICLES, INCLUDING MILLION OR 26%); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED

WARES, GOLDSMITHS

AND OTHER AND SILVERSMITHS' MAINLY JEWELLERY,

OR ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI - PRECIOUS MATERIAL (BY $1,19! MILLION 20%).

1

$1,399

WERE DECREASES

RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF HOWEVER IMPORTS OF TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $227 MILLION OR 17%); AND RAW

$199 MILLION OR? RIPES, SKINS AND PURSKINS (RY

$141 MILLION OR 15%). GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (BY

AIRBORNE 65%); POWER

INCREASES WERE APPARATUS AND MILLION

ANALYSFD BY COMMODITY BY COUNTRY, SIGNIFICANT RECORDED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF FROM THE USA (BY $916

20%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, OR 14%) AND MALAYSIA (BY $706 MILLJON OR

AND WATCHRS AND CLOCKS FROM EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS 1

16%) JAPAN

MILLION OR

SWITZERLAND (BY (BY $1,211

$1,11L AND FROM

AND

AND RECORDING SOUND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 21%); OR MILLION

MILLION OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS. AND EQUIPMENT FROM JAPAN (BY $92|

INCLUDING ARTICLES

MAINLY MANUFACTURED 12%);

MISCELLANEOUS

WARKS, AND OTHER ARTICLES JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITUS' AND SILVERSMITHS' PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS FROM THE USA (BY $397 MILLION 33%).

AND

+

OF

OR

/ON THE