XN000022-1993-11-09 — Page 7

6

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1993

VOLUME AND PRICE MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN AUGUST

THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF

WITH THE SAME PERIOD THIS YEAR DECREASED BY 3.7% AS COMPARED

LAST YEAR, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS RECORDED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF 22%.

THIS IS ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VOLUME EXPORTS INCREASED BY 16%. IMPORTS ALSO INCREASED BY 16%

OF IN

TOTAL VOLUME.

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

VIRTUALLY

AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS BOTH REMAINED UNCHANGED. IMPORT PRICES DECREASED BY 0.7%.

WHICH

PRICE CHANGES ARE REFLECTED BY CHANGES IN UNIT VALUE 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 0.5% IN FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1993 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

THE

TAKING AUGUST 1993 ALONE AND COMPARING WITH AUGUST 1992, VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 6.0% WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 20%. THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 14%. VOLUME OF IMPORTS GREW BY 18%.

THE

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND IMPORTS BOTH REMAINED VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED. RE-EXPORT PRICES DECREASED BY 0.7%.

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

OF

COMPARING AUGUST 1993 WITH AUGUST 1992, WITH THE EXCEPTION TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES WHICH RECORDED AN INCREASE OF 2.6%, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR OTHER COMMODITY GROUPS DECREASED, PARTICULARLY RADIOS OF ALL KINDS

AND (-52%);

FOOTWEAR

(-47%).

AS REGARDS DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES, THE PRICES OF FOOTWEAR CLOTHING INCREASED BY 3.0% AND 1.1% RESPECTIVELY.

AND

ON THE

PRICES OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT RECORDED FOR TEXTILE FABRICS (-6.4%); TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (-5.4%); AND RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-4.7%).

WERE

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

BY

/THE IMPORT