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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1991

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EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR AUGUST RELEASED

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN AUGUST 1991, AT $134,324 MILLION

MİLLİON, GREW BY 17% IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH AUGUST 1990, ACCORDING TO THE DETAILED FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN AUGUST 1991 RELEASED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 4% TO $20,364 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 23% TO $47, 205 MILLION.

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 14% TO $67,569 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 20% TO $66,755 MILLION.

THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JANUARY TO AUGUST 1991, AT $970,351 MILLION, INCREASED BY 21% AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990.

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 3X TO $146,467 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 28% TO $328,825 MILLION.

THUS,

$476,292

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 19% TO MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $495,058 MILLION.

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

COMPARING AUGUST 1991 WITH AUGUST 1990, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ΤΟ FRANCE, CHINA, SINGAPORE AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY INCREASED BY 8%, 7%, 6% AND 1% RESPECTIVELY.

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO TAIWAN, THE NETHERLANDS, THE USA AND CANADA DECREASED BY 23%, 12%, 10% AND 9% RESPECTIVELY. THOSE TO JAPAN AND THE UNITED KINGDOM DECREASED BY 6% AND 3% RESPECTIVELY,

COMPARING JANUARY TO AUGUST 1991 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990, SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, BY 24% AND 23% RESPECTIVELY.

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA, THE NETHERLANDS, THE 12%, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, TAIWAN AND JAPAN INCREASED BY 13%, 12%, 10%,

5% AND 2% RESPECTIVELY.

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA AND THE DECREASED BY 12% AND 11% RESPECTIVELY.

USA

TABLE

2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

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