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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1993

EXPORTS TO

(-15%),

CHINA

DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC FRANCE (-28%), GERMANY (-23%), JAPAN (-17%), THE NETHERLANDS THE UNITED KINGDOM (-12%), THE UNITED STATES (-9.5%) AND (-2.3%).

BUT INCREASES OF 12%, 6.5% AND 1.4% IN VALUE WERE RECORDED THOSE TO TAIWAN, SINGAPORE AND CANADA RESPECTIVELY.

FOR

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR DESTINATIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.

COMPARING THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1993 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM (-14%), FRANCE (-13%), JAPAN (-12%), GERMANY (-8.4%), THE UNITED STATES (-8.4%), CANADA (-6.8%), THE NETHERLANDS (-6.5%) AND TAIWAN (-4.9%).

HOWEVER, INCREASES OF 11% AND 5.5% IN VALUE WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE TO SINGAPORE AND CHINA RESPECTIVELY.

TAKING ALL DESTINATIONS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1993, AT $163,635 MILLION, DECREASED BY 3.9% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992.

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

COMPARING THE FIRST NINE 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 $2,041 MILLION OR 14%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $646 MILLION OR 6.8%); AND MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $369 MILLION OR 16%).

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR CLOTHING (BY $3,991 MILLION OR 7.2%); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $2,084 MILLION OR 14%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $1,882 MILLION OR 14%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $1,403 MILLION OR 8.5%); AND TEXTILES (BY $553 MILLION OR 4.4%).

THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN SEPTEMBER 1993 WAS $92,055 INCREASING BY 11% OVER THAT IN SEPTEMBER 1992.

MILLION,

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

COMPARING SEPTEMBER 1993 WITH SEPTEMBER 1992, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS: SINGAPORE (+37%), ITALY (+25%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+19%), MALAYSIA (+18%), CHINA (+15%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+8.1%), THE UNITED STATES (+7.4%), TAIWAN (+4.2%), GERMANY (+2.4%) AND JAPAN (+1.9%).

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