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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1994

VOLUME AND PRICE MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN NOVEMBER 1993

LAST

THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST 11 MONTHS OF

WITH THE SAME PERIOD YEAR DECREASED BY 5.0% AS COMPARED

IN 1992, THAT OF RE-EXPORTS RECORDED A SIGNIFICANT WHILE

INCREASE OF 20%, ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

OF

TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VOLUME TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 14%. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 13% 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,

COMPARISON,

THOSE

OF REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD AS THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORT INCREASED SLIGHTLY BY 0.3% WHILE OF RE-EXPORT DECREASED BY 0.5%. IMPORTS PRICES DECREASED BY 0.6%.

INDICES,

FOR CERTAIN

PRICE CHANGES ARE REFLECTED BY CHANGES IN UNIT VALUE ARE COMPILED BASED ON AVERAGE UNIT VALUBS

OR, COMMODITIES, BASED ON SPECIFIC PRICE DATA.

WHICH

EXPORT

THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX, DEFINED AS THE RATIO OF TOTAL INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX, INCREASED SLIGHTLY BY 0.3% IN FIRST 11 MONTHS OF 1993 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992.

PRICE

THE

NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 1993 ALONE AND COMPARING WITH TAKING

1992, OF RE- THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY 5.8% WHILE THAT EXPORTS

BY INCREASED INCREASED BY 15%. THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS 10%. THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS GREW BY 8.6%.

OVER

RE-EXPORTS

BOTH

OF THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES DECREASED BY

IMPORTS THE PRICE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND 0.8%. REMAINED VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED.

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

OF DOMESTIC

NOVEMBER COMPARING

FOR IN THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED INCREASES MANUFACTURES (+10%); AND TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (+7.6%).

1993 WITH NOVEMBER

1992,

SUBSTANTIAL METAL

VOLUME OF ON THE OTHER HAND, CONSIDERABLE DECREASES IN

AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS

(-57%); WERE RECORDED FOR RADIOS OF ALL KINDS

THE

AS

REGARDS DOMESTIC

FOOTWEAR (-47%).

INCREASED BY 8.3%.

ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT RECORDED FOR TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (-11%); TEXTILE FABRICS AND RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-4.4%).

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

EXPORT PRICES, THE PRICES OF FOOTWEAR

PRICES WERE (~7.5%);

BY

THE IMPORT VOLUME OF FOODSTUFFS NOVEMBER 1993 AS COMPARED WITH NOVEMBER

INCREASED SLIGHTLY BY 0.4% 1992.

IN

/CONSIDERABLE INCREASES

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