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TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1994

OF

AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 0.5% RESPECTIVELY. IMPORT PRICES INCREASED BY 1.6%.

COMPARISON,

1.0%

AND

INDICES,

VALUES OR, FOR CERTAIN

PRICE CHANGES ARE REFLECTED BY CHANGES IN UNIT VALUE WHICH ARE COMPILED BASED ON AVERAGE UNIT COMMODITIES, BASED ON SPECIFIC PRICE DATA.

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IN THE FIRST

THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX, DEFINED AS THE RATIO OF TOTAL PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX, DECREASED BY 1.0% QUARTER OF 1994 OVER THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

OF DOMESTIC

COMPARING MARCH 1994 WITH MARCH 1993, THE VOLUME EXPORTS DECREASED BY 9.5%, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 11%. MEANWHILE, THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS GREW BY 8.4%.

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE

AND 1.5% INCREASED BY AND RE-EXPORTS

EXPORTS IMPORT PRICES INCREASED BY 2.2%.

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

PRICES OF DOMESTIC 0.5% RESPECTIVELY.

OF DOMESTIC

EXCEPTION

VOLUME OF DECREASED, HANDBAGS

OF

COMPARING MARCH 1994 WITH MARCH 1993, WITH THE

THE 52%, FOOTWEAR WHICH

A MARKED INCREASE OF RECORDED

GROUPS MAJOR COMMODITY DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR OTHER PARTICULARLY FOR RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-49%), TRAVEL GOODS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (-26%) AND DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (-23%).

COMMODITY GROUPS WHICH RECORDED INCREASES IN PRICES INCLUDED TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR AND RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (+3.4%).

DOMESTIC BXPORT ARTICLES (+7.2%)

ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT RECORDED FOR TEXTILE FABRICS (-5.2%) AND FOOTWEAR (-3.6%).

PRICES WRRE

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

THE IMPORT VOLUME OF FOODSTUFFS INCREASED BY 14% IN MARCH AS COMPARED WITH MARCH 1993.

BY

1994

VOLUMB OF MEAT AND MEAT DECREASE WAS

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORT SOYA BEAN OIL, PEANUT OIL, VEGETABLE OIL AND LARD;

AND

CONSIDERABLE HOWEVER, PREPARATION;

VEGETABLES. RECORDED IN THE IMPORT VOLUME OF SWINE.

OVER THE

PERIOD OF COMPARISON, SAME CONSUMER GOODS INCRRASED BY 4.9%.

THE

IMPORT VOLUME

OF

IMPORT VOLUME COMMODITY ITEMS WITH CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN

SETS, TELEVISION

GRAMOPHONES, INCLUDED ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; RADIOS,

AND CAMERAS, RECORDS,

FLASHLIGHT TAPE RECORDERS

DECREASES IN IMPORT VOLUME APPARATUS AND SUPPLIES FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. WERE NOTED OF PASSENGER MOTOR CARS AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES.

THE

AND

VOLUMB IMPORT

AMPLIFIERS;,

OF RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES INCREASED BY 15% IN MARCH 1994 AS COMPARED WITH MARCH 1993.

/SIGNIFICANT INCREASES