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FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1993

OF COMPARISON,

AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS ROTH INCREASED IMPORT PRICES REMAINED VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED.

PRICE CHANGES ARE REFLECTED BY CHANGES IN UNIT VALUE WHICH ARE COMPILED BASED ON AVERAGE UNIT VALUES OR. COMMODITIES, BASED ON SPECIFIC PRICE DATA.

FOR

THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX, DEFINED AS THE RATIO OF TOTAL PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX, INCREASED BY 1% IN THE MONTHS OF 1992 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

BY 1%.

INDEXES,

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COMPARING OCTOBER 1992 WITH OCTOBER 1991, DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 1% WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY THE VOLUME OF 32%. THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 23%. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 29%,

THE VOLUME OF

OF DOMESTIC IMPORT

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES EXPORTS INCREASED BY 2%, WHILE THOSE OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 1%. PRICES REMAINED VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

OF DOMESTIC

GROUPS

COMPARING OCTOBER 1992 WITH OCTOBER 1991, COMMODITY WHICH RECORDED SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCLUDED METAL ORES AND SCRAP (+20%); ELECTRONIC AND RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (+11%).

COMPONENTS (+19%);

ON THE OTHER HAND, CONSIDERABLE DECREASES IN THE VOLUME OF RECORDED FOR DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (-17%); AND

DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE (-35%); TRAVEL FOOTWEAR (-15%).

GROUPS

WHICH {+6%); FOOTWEAR

AS REGARDS DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES, COMMODITY RECORDED SIGNIFICANT INCREASES INCLUDED CLOTHING (+5%); AND TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (+5%).

ON THE OTHER HAND, THE DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES OF RADIOS OF KINDS; AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS DECLINED BY 6% AND 4% RESPECTIVELY.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF IMPORTS END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 2.

THE IMPORT VOLUME OF FOODSTUFFS INCREASED BY 14% 1992 AS COMPARED WITH OCTOBER 1991.

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THE IMPORT BEAN OIL, PEANUT OIL. VEGETABLE OIL AND LARD; WHEAT AND ANIMALS OF THE BOVINE SPECIES. HOWEVER,

WERE RECORDED FOR THE IMPORT VOLUME OF RICE;

SOYA FRUIT; DECREASES POULTRY.

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE CONSUMER GOODS INCREASED BY 30%.

ALL

BY

IN OCTOBER

VOLUME AND

OF FLOUR; CONSIDERABLE AND LIVE

IMPORT VOLUME OF

/COMMODITY ITEMS