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MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1991

EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR JUNE RELEASED

GREW

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JUNE 1991, AT $124,719 MILLION, BY 19% IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH JUNE 1990, ACCORDING TO THE DETAILED FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN JUNE 1991 RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY) THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

OVER THE

OF

BY

DOMESTIC

SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE EXPORTS DECREASED BY 0.2% TO $18,812 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 24% TO $42,315 MILLION.

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 15% TO 961,127 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 22% TO $63,592 MILLION.

THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1991, AT $697,259 MILLION, INCREASED BY 21% AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990.

THE OVER

SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 4% TO $104,925 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF INCREASED BY 27% TO $233,113 MILLION.

RE-EXPORTS

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 19% TO $338,038 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $359,221 MILLION.

THUS,

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

EXPORTS то

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MAJOR

COMPARING JUNE 1991 WITH JUNE 1990, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY, BY 25%, 17%,

AND 16%,

RESPECTIVELY.

15%

THOSE TO FRANCE AND CHINA INCREASED BY 9% AND 4% RESPECTIVELY.

HOWEVER,

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA, THE U.S.A. AND JAPAN DECREASED BY 11%, 10% AND 3% RESPECTIVELY.

1990,

EXPORTS

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1991 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC TO THE FEDERAL, REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, SINGAPORE, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM AND CHINA, BY 32%, 29%, 21%, 17% AND 14% RESPECTIVELY.

+

THE

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FRANCE, INCREASED BY 10%, 8% AND 4% RESPECTIVELY.

TAIWAN AND

JAPAN

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA AND THE U.S.A. DECREASED BY 14% AND 13% RESPECTIVELY.

/TABLE 2