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MONDAY, JULY 12, 1993

1992,

COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA AND CHINA INCREASED BY 18%, 17% AND 12% RESPECTIVELY.

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO OTHER MAJOR DESTINATIONS: THE UNITED KINGDOM (-13%), CANADA {-11%), JAPAN (-9.6%), GERMANY (-8.8%), THE NETHERLANDS (- 8.6%), THE UNITED STATES (-6.8%) AND TAIWAN (-5.4%).

FOR ALL

DESTINATIONS TAKEN TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1993. AT $84,673 MILLION, DECREASED BY 1.3% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992.

COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1,574 MILLION OR 21%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $694 MILLION OR 14%); AND MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $206 MILLION OR 16%)

VALUE OF DOMESTIC MILLION OR 8.1%); MAINLY JEWELLERY,

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, DECREASES IN THE EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR CLOTHING (BY $2,029 MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING OF GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $1,056 MILLION OR 12%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $812 MILLION OR 11%); AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $181 MILLION OR 2.3%).

THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN MAY 1993 WAS $90,724 MILLION, INCREASING BY 11% OVER THAT IN MAY 1992.

COMPARING MAY 1993 WITH MAY 1992, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM MOST OF THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS : THE UNITED STATES (+41%), MALAYSIA (+26%), ITALY (+17%), JAPAN (+14%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+14%), CHINA (+9.7%), GERMANY (+8.6%) AND SINGAPORE (+6.5%).

0.2%.

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM TAIWAN SLIGHTLY DECREASED BY

COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED : MALAYSIA (+29%), THE UNITED STATES (+29%), SINGAPORE (+26%), GERMANY (+22%), ITALY (+20%), JAPAN (+18%), CHINA (+14%), TAIWAN (+12%), THE

UNITED KINGDOM (+9.6%) AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+8.8%).

THE VALUE OF

IMPORTS IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1993 WAS $417,432 MILLION, AN INCREASE OF 17% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992.

COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS OF MOST MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

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