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TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1993

REQUIRED ΤΟ

TO

ARISING

THE APPLICANTS ARE

PRODUCE EVIDENCE SUBSTANTIATE THAT THE ACCIDENT CAUSING INJURY OR DEATH IS ONE OUT OF AND IN THE COURSE OF EMPLOYMENT, HE SAID.

EMPLOYEE SHOULD HAVE FOR A NON-FATAL CASE, THE INJURED

ALSO ABOVE BY BEEN OWED PERIODICAL PAYMENTS FOR TWO MONTHS' SICK LEAVE OR HIS EMPLOYER, HE ADDED.

HE POINTED OUT THAT THE LOAN, ONCE APPROVED, WILL TO A BANK ACCOUNT DESIGNATED BY THE APPLICANT.

ENQUIRIES ABOUT THE LOAN SCHEME CAN BE MADE AT THE OFFICES OR ON TEL 733 2338.

BE CREDITED

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BRANCH

VOLUME AND PRICE MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN MAY

IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1993, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 1.6% AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS RECORDED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF 24%, ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 19%. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 18% IN VOLUME.

THE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IS DERIVED FROM THE GROWTH IN TRADE VALUES WITH THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES BEING DISCOUNTED.

AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE ABOUT THE SAME WHILE THOSE OF RE- EXPORTS DECREASED BY 0.5%. IMPORT PRICES DECREASED BY 1.0%.

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

INDICES, CERTAIN

EXPORT THE

THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX, DEFINED AS THE RATIO OF TOTAL PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX, INCREASED SLIGHTLY BY 0.6% IN FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1993 AS COMPARED WITH SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

TAKING MAY 1993 ALONE AND COMPARING WITH MAY 1992, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 6.4% WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 17%. THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 12%. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS GREW BY 12%.

OVER THE DECREASED BY 0.3%. UNCHANGED.

SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF IMPORTS

THOSE OF RE-EXPORTS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS

REMAINED

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

DOMESTIC

/COMPARING MAY