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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1994

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MALAYSIA AND THE UNITED STATES INCREASED BY 7.0% AND 0.2% RESPECTIVELY.

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

COMPARING THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MOST OF THE MAIN DESTINATIONS: CANADA (-18%), GERMANY (-12%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (-11%), CHINA (-11%), JAPAN (-7.7%), THE NETHERLANDS (-7.4%), TAIWAN (-4.8%), THE UNITED STATES (-3.6%) AND MALAYSIA (-0.7%).

BY 1.7%.

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE INCREASED

TAKING ALL DESTINATIONS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1994, AT $61.4 BILLION, DECREASED BY 7.8% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993. THIS REFLECTED PARTLY THE CONTINUED STRUCTURAL SHIFT ΤΟ RE-EXPORTS AND PARTLY THE WEAK DEMAND IN THE OVERSEAS MARKETS.

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

COMPARING THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1933, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $945 MILLION OR 16%); CLOTHING (BY $881 MILLION OR 4.9%); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $851 MILLION OR 20%); TEXTILES (BY $769 MILLION OR 15%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES CLOCKS (BY $670 MILLION OR 13%); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY OF JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $208 MILLION OR 3.4%).

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, AN INCREASE IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $145 MILLION OR 2.0%).

THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN APRIL 1994. AT $101.9 BILLION, INCREASED BY 8.8% OVER THAT IN APRIL 1993.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAIN SUPPLIERS ARE SHOWN IN TABLB 5.

COMPARING APRIL 1994 WITH APRIL 1993, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM MALAYSIA (+31%), SINGAPORE (+27%), ITALY (+22%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+19%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+15%), CHINA (+11%), TAIWAN (+4.7%) AND JAPAN (+3.2%).

COMPARING THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993,

THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL OF THE MAIN SUPPLIERS INCREASED: MALAYSIA (+27%), ITALY (+24%), SINGAPORE (+15%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+13%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+13%), CHINA (+12%), TAIWAN (+5.8%), GERMANY (+3.1%), THE UNITED STATES (+2.1%) AND JAPAN (+1.6%).

THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1994, AT $357.8 BILLION, INCREASED BY 9.5% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993.

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