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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1992

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EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR JUNE RELEASED

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JUNE THIS YEAR, AT $164,846 MILLION, INCREASED BY 32% IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH JUNE LAST YEAR, TO STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND DEPARTMENT.

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS

VALUE OF INCREASED BY 12% TO $21,111 MILLION WHILE THAT OF ROSE BY 40% TO $59,114 MILLION.

ACCORDING STATISTICS

DOMESTIC RE-EXPORTS

TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 31% TO $80,225 MILLION. VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 33% TO $84,621 MILLION.

MEANWHILE,

THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF YEAR, AT $858,820 MILLION, INCREASED BY 23% AS COMPARED WITH THE PERIOD LAST YEAR,

OF

THE

THIS SAME

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC INCREASED BY 2% TO $106,941 MILLION WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS

BY 33% TO $309,232 MILLION.

EXPORTS INCREASED

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $416,173 MILLION WHILE THAT OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 23% TO $442,646 MILLION.

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

THE 22%), 10%).

10 MAJOR

IN

COMPARING JUNE 1992 WITH JUNE 1991, INCREASES WERE RECORDED VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA (BY 36%), THE NETHERLANDS (BY THE UNITED STATES (BY 17%), SINGAPORE (BY 13%) AND TAIWAN (BY

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE EXPORTS TO FRANCE (-17%), GERMANY (-14%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (-6%) AND VALUE OF DOMESTIC JAPAN (-3%),

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1992 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA, SINGAPORE, CANADA, THE UNITED 1991, STATES AND TAIWAN INCREASED BY 17%, 13%, 9%, 8% AND 6% RESPECTIVELY.

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO GERMANY, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, THE NETHERLANDS AND JAPAN DECREASED 12% AND 2% RESPECTIVELY.

BY 29%, 17%,

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

THE

14%,

OF

1991,

OFFICE

OR

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1992 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $1,098 MILLION 13%); CLOTHING (BY $731 MILLION OR 2%); MACHINERY PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $352 MILLION OR 30%); AND TEXTILES (BY

SPECIALISED FOR MILLION OR 3%).

$232

/HOWEVER, DECREASES