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MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 1991

PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN SEPTEMBER RELEASED

THE

+

OF

VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 1%, WHILE THAT RE-EXPORTS GREW BY 27% IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1991 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990, ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS TODAY (MONDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

RELEASED

IN

TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THERE WAS AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 17% THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 20% IN VOLUME.

THE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IS DERIVED FROM THE GROWTH IN TRADE VALUES, HAVING DISCOUNTED THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES.

OF

COMPARISON,

AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS, RE-EXPORTS AND IMPORTS ALL ROSE BY 2%. THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX (EXPRESSED AS A RATIO OF TOTAL EXPORT PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX) SHOWED LITTLE CHANGE.

ACCOUNT

PRICES ARE BASED ON UNIT VALUES WHICH DO NOT TAKE INTO CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OR QUALITY OF GOODS TRADED, EXCEPT FOR SOME SELECTED COMMODITIES

WHICH SPECIFICATION PRICE AVAILABLE.

FOR

INDEXES

ARE

THE

COMPARING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 1991 WITH SEPTEMBER 1990, VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 3%, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 40%. TAKING THEM TOGETHER, THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 26%. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS GREW BY 23%.

EXPORTS 1%.

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES

AND RE-EXPORTS BOTH ROSE BY 2%. IMPORT PRICES

DOMESTIC

BY

OF INCREASED

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP FOR SEPTEMBER 1991 AS COMPARED WITH SEPTEMBER 1990 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

VOLUME THE

OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF SOME COMMODITY GROUPS INCREASED IN SEPTEMBER 1991 AS COMPARED WITH SEPTEMBER 1990, INCLUDING METAL MANUFACTURES (+37%); ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+18%); TEXTILE AND THREAD (+12%); CLOTHING (+11%); TEXTILE FABRICS TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (+3%).

ON

THE

YARN

(+11%);

AND

VOLUME

WERE (-30%); ELECTRICAL

OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT RECORDED IN RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-42%); METAL ORES AND SCRAP WATCHES AND CLOCKS (-26%); FOOTWEAR (-12%); DOMESTIC APPLIANCES (-7%); AND TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (-5%).

THE

MOST COMMODITY

GROUPS

THESE

TEXTILE

PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF INCREASED IN SEPTEMBER 1991 AS COMPARED WITH SEPTEMBER 1990. INCLUDED TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (+6%); FABRICS (+4%); FOOTWEAR (+4%); CLOTHING (+4%); TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (+3%); RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (+2%); DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+2%); AND METAL MANUFACTURES (+1%).

/HOWEVER, DECREASES