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MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1992

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PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES FOR NOVEMBER

RE-EXPORTS IN NOVEMBER CONTINUED TO SURGE, WHILE DOMESTIC EXPORT'S REGISTERED A MARGINAL DECLINE. MEANWHILE, IMPORTS ALSO GREW MARKEDLY,

THESE ARE SHOWN IN THE PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

YEAR

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY $11,005 MILLION OR 21.0% OVER A BARLIER TO $63,305 MILLION IN NOVEMBER 1992.

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY $129 MILLION OR 0.6% TO #20,327 MILLION.

TAKING RE-EXPORTS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS IN NOVEMBER GREW BY $10,876 MILLION OR 14.9% OVER A YEAR EARLIER TO $83,632 MILLION.

MEANWHILE, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY $14,392 MILLION OR 20.4% TO $85,107 MILLION.

OF

TOTAL

AS THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS WAS SMALLER THAN THAT IMPORTS, A VISIBLE TRADE DEFICIT OF $1,475 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 1.7% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN NOVEMBER 1992.

THIS COMPARED WITH A SURPLUS OF $2,041 MILLION, EQUIVALENT то 2.9% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, RECORDED IN NOVEMBER 1991.

IN THE FIRST 11 MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY $144,192 MILLION OR 29.9% OVER A YEAR EARLIER TO $626,546 MILLION.

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AMOUNTED TO $212,465 MILLION, $3,719 MILLION OR 1.8% HIGHER THAN IN THE FIRST 11 MONTHS OF LAST YEAR.

TAKING RE-EXPORTS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS, AT $839,011 MILLION IN THE FIRST 11 MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, WAS $147,911 MILLION OR 21.4% HIGHER THAN A YEAR EARLIER.

THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY $163,055 MILLION OR 23.2% TO

MILLION.

$865,063

OF

YEAR.

A VISIBLE TRADE DEFICIT OF $26,052 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED IN THE FIRST 11 MONTHS OF

3.0% THIS

THIS COMPARED WITH A DEFICIT OF $10,908 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 1.6% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, RECORDED IN THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

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