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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1991

IN

WBRE

$575

DETAILED FIGURES ANALYSED BY COMMODITY BY COUNTRY SHOWED THAT

INCREASES NOTABLE

THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS RECORDED IN CLOTHING TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY MILLION

OR OR 43%) AND TO THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $210 MILLION

42%); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT TO SINGAPORE (BY $351 MILLION OR 36%) AND TO JAPAN (BY $191 MILLION OR 114%): ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF ΤΟ SINGAPORE (BY $627 MILLION OR 200%); AND PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $205 MILLION OR 37%).

DECREASES HOWEVER,

WERE RECORDED IN

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

SILVERSMITHS'

ΤΟ JAPAN (BY $56 ARTICLES, INCLUDING WARES, AND OTHER

AND

SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT TO THE USA (BY $222 MILLION OR 43%) AND

MANUFACTURED MISCELLANEOUS GOLDSMITHS' PRECIOUS INDUSTRIAL

AND

MILLION OR 47%): MAINLY JEWELLERY, PRECIOUS OR SEMI- GENERAL (BY

AND MATERIALS TO THE USA (BY $228 MILLION OR 23%);

USA MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND MACHINE PARTS TO THE $19 MILLION OR 46%).

AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE

PRESENTED IN

TABLE 3.

IMPORTS CARRIED BY AIR FROM MOST MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED VALUE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1991 OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990.

JAPAN

IN

THE

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE

FROM IMPORTS

SINGAPORE (+44%), TAIWAN (+43%),

(+28%), REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+26%) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+19%).

AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM, MALAYSIA, THE USA AND ITALY ALSO INCREASED BY 11%, 7%, 6% AND 4% RESPECTIVELY. HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM SWITZERLAND DECREASED BY 4%.

AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS ARE SHOWN

IN

TABLE 4.

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $3,102 MILLION OR 20%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $1,521 MILLION OR 17%); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC

EQUIPMENT (BY $1,111 PROCESSING

MILLION OR 28%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS EQUIPMENT (BY $779 MILLION OR 26%).

DATA

AND

AND

DECREASES WERE HOWEVER,

RECORDED IN THE

OF VALUE

AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (BY $175 MILLION OR 17%); NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY $100 MILLION OR 1%); AND LEATHER AND LEATHER MANUFACTURES AND DRESSED FURSKINS (BY $84 MILLION OR 8%).

/ANALYSED BY

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