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TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1994

VOLUME AND PRICE MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN JANUARY

1994

HIGHER

RE-EXPORTS

THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN JANUARY 1994 WAS 4.6% THAN A YEAR EARLIER. OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE VOLUME OF

THE STATISTICS RECORDED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF 36%, ACCORDING TO RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VOLUME

IMPORTS INCREASED BY 26% IN VOLUME. TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 29%.

OF

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

0.7%

OF COMPARISON, AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND IMPORTS INCREASED BY 0.6% AND RESPECTIVELY. RE-EXPORT PRICES REMAINED VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED

WHICH

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

COMMODITIES, BASED ON SPECIFIC PRICK DATA.

INDICES,

VALUES OR, FOR CERTAIN

EXPORT THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX, DEFINED AS THE RATIO OF TOTAL

IN JANUARY 1994 PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX, DECREASED BY 0.4% OVER JANUARY 1993.

THE

CAUTION SHOULD BE EXERCISED IN INTERPRETING THE CHANGES IN VOLUME OF TRADE FOR A SINGLE MONTH AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH YEAR WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THE TIMING OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. MORE MEANINGFUL TO MAKE COMPARISONS OVER A LONGER PERIOD.

IT IS

THREE DECREASED THE VOLUME. OF

L'OMPARING THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1994 WITH THE MONTHS ENDING JANUARY 1993, THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY 3.1% WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 21%. IMPORTS GREW BY 12%.

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

OF DOMESTIC

75 COMMODITY GROUPS 1993, JANUARY 1994 WITH JANUARY COMPARING WHICH RECORDED SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS MANUFACTURES (+20%); INCLUDED TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD (+25%); METAL

AND }+18%); ARTICLES

TEXTILE TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR FABRICS (+17%).

THE VOLUME OF

(-68%); KINDS

ON THE OTHER HAND, CONSIDERABLE DECREASES IN

ALL RECORDED FOR RADIOS OF EXPORTS DOMESTIC

WERE FOOTWEAR (-23%); AND TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (-16%).

WHICH ŞIMILAR MANUFACTURES

GROUPS. COMMODITY AS REGARDS DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES,

TRAVEL GOODS. HANDBAGS AND INCLUDED RECORDED INCREASES

0%); METAL ARTICLES (+4.6%); ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+3. (+2.9%); AND DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+2,8%).

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