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VALUE

AS REGARDS DOMESTIC EXPORTS, INCREASES OF 16% AND 13% IN

FRANCE RESPECTIVELY WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE TO THE NETHERLANDS AND

JULY 1993 WITH JULY 1992. WHEN COMPARING

FOR THOSE TO SINGAPORE, 6.4% AND GERMANY AND CHINA, THE CORRESPONDING INCREASES WERE 6.4%, 6.2% RESPECTIVELY.

OF

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE

EXPORTS TO OTHER MAJOR DESTINATIONS 3 THE UNITED DOMESTIC

KINGDOM (-1.2%) AND (-18%), JAPAN (-6.7%), THE UNITED STATES (-5.7%), CANADA TAIWAN (-1.1%).

CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE THE DESTINATIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.

10

MAJOR

IN

COMPARING THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC 1992,

EXPORTS ΤΟ SINGAPORE AND CHINA INCREASED BY 14% AND 7.4% RESPECTIVELY.

PERIOD

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUB OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS то OTHER MAJOR DESTINATIONS: THE UNITED KINGDOM (-15%), FRANCE (-12%), JAPAN (-11%), THE UNITED STATES

CANADA (-8.3%), (-8.2%), TAIWAN (-7.9%), THE NETHERLANDS (-6.6%) AND GERMANY (-5.4%).

OF

FOR ALL DESTINATIONS TAKEN TOGETHER, THE VALUE

DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1993, AT $124,551 MILLION, DECREASED BY 2.9% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992.

TABLE 4 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS THE 10 MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

IN

COMPARING

OF

PERIOD

THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME

WERE REGISTERED 1992, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR ELECTRICAL

AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, PARTS THEREOF (BY $1,893 MILLION OR 17%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $757 MILLION 10%); AND MACHINERY SPECIALIZED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES MILLION OR 16%).

OR

(BY $285

DOMESTIC

6.7%);

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF

RECORDED EXPORTS WERE

FOR CLOTHING (BY

OR $2,683 MILLION PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $1,407 MILLION OR 13%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS'

AND AUTOMATIC WARES (BY $1,349 MILLION OR 11%); AND OFFICE MACHINES DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $1,293 MILLION OR 11%).

THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN JULY 1993 WAS INCREASING BY 16% OVER THAT IN JULY 1992.

$98,690

MILLION,

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 5.

IN

COMPARING JULY 1993 WITH JULY 1992, INCREASES WERE RECORDED THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL OF THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS: GERMANY (+32%),

ITALY (+29%), MALAYSIA

(+25%), CHINA

THE (+18%),

UNITED KINGDOM REPUBLIC OF (+17%), THE UNITED STATES (+16%), SINGAPORE (+14%), THE KOREA (+11%), TAIWAN (+11%) AND JAPAN (+10%).

/COMPARING THE