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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1991

EXTERNAL TRADE STATIS IUS FOR APRIL RELEASED

*

TOTAL

MERCHANDISE

TRADE IN APRIL 1991, AT

MILLION, ΤΟ THE

RELEASED TODAY

$125,524 GREW BY 28% IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH APRIL 1990, ACCORDING

FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN APRIL 1991 DETAILED (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC RE-EXPORTS EXPORTS INCREASED BY 11% TO $18,193 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF ROSE BY 35% TO $41,513 MILLION.

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 26% TO $59,707 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 30% TO $65,817 MILLION.

1991. THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JANUARY TO APRIL AT $441,048 MILLION, INCREASED BY 22% AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990.

OVER THE SAMK PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS

RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 6% TO $66,683 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF INCREASED BY 28% TO $145,873 MILLION.

THUS,

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 20% TO $212,556 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 25% TO $228,492 MILLION.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ΤΟ 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

COMPARING APRIL 1991 WITH APRIL 1990, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF

THE GERMANY CHINA,

+ NETHERLANDS, THE UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE AND JAPAN INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY, BY 45%, 34%, 30%, 29%, 24%, 23% AND 17% RESPECTIVELY.

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE USA, CANADA TAIWAN DECREASED BY 13%, 7% AND 1% RESPECTIVELY.

AND

1990,

EXPORTS

COMPARING JANUARY TO APRIL 1991 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC ΤΟ THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, SINGAPORE, THE UNITED KINGDOM, CHINA AND FRANCE, BY 39%, 39%, 28%, 21%, 16% AND

RESPECTIVELY.

NETHERLANDS,

THE

13%

THE VALUE OF DOMESTI(' EXPORTS TO TAIWAN INCREASED BY 9% AND 6X NESPROTIVELY -

AND JAPAN

ALSO

HOWEVER,

THE THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA AND BOTH DECREASED BY 14%.

USA

TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS

OF

/COMPARING JANUARY