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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1991

COMMODITIES

THIS MARKET INCLUDED

3

FOOTWEAR (BY

WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RE-EXPORT MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY BABY

$2,363 MILLION

SPORTING GOODS (BY $1,084

TOYS, GAMES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

MILLION OR

VALUE ΤΟ OR 61%); CARRIAGES, 12%);

AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS

EQUIPMENT (BY $729 MILLION OR 21%).

AND

AND

NON-METALLIC MINERAL

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN MANUFACTURES (BY $172 MILLION OR 12%); AND POWER GENERATING AND EQUIPMENT (BY $80 MILLION OR 28%).

RE-EXPORTS

MACHINERY

то THE FEDERAL MILLION

COMPARING WITH A YEAR EARLIER, REPUBLIC OF GERMANY RECORDED A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE OF $6,890 OR 78% IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1991.

REGISTERED FOR

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RE-EXPORT VALUE WERE CLOTHING (BY $2,550 MILLION OR 109%); AND MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GO US (BY $1,047 MILLION OR 66%).

MANUFACTURED

GAMES AND SPORTING

HOWEVER, A NOTABLE DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN CHEMICAL AND PRODUCTS (BY $43 MILLION OR 65%).

MATERIALS

RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN INCREASED BY $2,467 MILLION OR 23% IN FIRST HALF OF 1991 OVER THE FIRST HALF OF 1990.

THE

WERE RECORDED IN

CARRIAGES,

CLOTHING

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RE-EXPORT VALUE MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY BABY TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $329 MILLION OR 28%); AND (RY $321 MILLION OR 14%).

A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN NON-METALLIC (BY $173 MILLION OR 16%).

MINERAL MANUFACTURES

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN BY $1,679 MILLION OR 17%.

THE RE-EXPORT VALUE OF TOBACCO AND INCREASED DRASTICALLY BY $1,358 MILLION OR TEXTILES INCREASED BY $262 MILLION OR 79%.

GREW

TOBACCO MANUFACTURES 110% WHEREAS THAT OF

ELECTRICAL

MACHINERY,

A DECREASE WAS HOWEVER REGISTERED FOR APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $713 MILLION OR 20%).

RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

KOREA

GOODS FROM CHINA, JAPAN, TAIWAN, THE U.S.A. AND THE REPUBLIC OF CONTRIBUTED 57%, 11%, 8%, 5% AND 3% RESPECTIVELY TO VALUR OF RE-EXPORTS THROUGH HONG KONG IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1991.

THE TOTAL

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1991 WITH THE YEAR,

SAME RE-EXPORTS FROM MOST OF THE MAJOR ORIGIN INCREASES

COUNTRIES IN VALUE, PARTICULARLY FOR THE REPUBLIC OF TAIWAN (+35%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+33%) AND JAPAN (+33%).

PERIOD LAST REGISTERED

KOREA (+35%),

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