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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1992

EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR OCTOBER

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TOTAL

MERCHANDISE TRADE

IN OCTOBER, AT $179,797 MILLION, INCREASED BY 27% IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR,

THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY ACCORDING STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

OVER

то

CENSUS

AND

SAME THE

PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC OF RE-EXPORTS EXPORTS INCREASED BY 3% TO $21,854 MILLION WHILE THAT ROSE BY 33% TO $67,923 MILLION.

TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE

MEANWHILE, TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 24% TO $89,777 MILLION. VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 30% TO $90,021 MILLION.

OF

THE

OF

WITH THE

THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST 10 MONTHS THIS YEAR, AT $1,535 BILLION, INCREASED BY 23% AS COMPARED SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

OVER

EXPORTS

THE SAME INCREASED

PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE

BY

2% TO $192 BILLION WHILE $563 BILLION.

VALUE THAT

OF

OF

DOMESTIC RE-EXPORTS

INCREASED BY 31% ΤΟ

THE

VALUE

OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 22% TO $755 BILLION

WHILE THAT OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 24% TO $780 BILLION.

COMPARING OCTOBER THIS YEAR WITH OCTOBER LAST YEAR, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO TAIWAN (+16%), CHINA (+11%), SINGAPORE (+10%) AND THE UNITED STATES (+6%).

HOWEVER,

DECREASES WERE

RECORDED IN THE

VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA (-18%), FRANCE (-11%), JAPAN (-10%), THE NETHERLANDS (-9%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (-8%) AND GERMANY (-5%).

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COMPARING THE FIRST 10 MONTHS OF THIS YEAR WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA, SINGAPORE, TAIWAN,

6% AND 3% THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA INCREASED BY 15%, 14%, 8%, RESPECTIVELY.

FRANCE,

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND JAPAN DECREASED, BY 21%, 16%, 9% AND 4% RESPECTIVELY.

THE

9%.

COMPARING THE FIRST 10 MONTHS OF THIS YEAR WITH THE SAME PERIOD REGISTERED LAST YEAR, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE

AUTOMATIC FOR CLOTHING (BY $2,440 MILLION OR 4%); OFFICE MACHINES AND DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $1,306 MILLION OR 9%); MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF $602 MILLION OR 4%).

AND ELECTRICAL

(BY

/HOWEVER, DECREASES