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FRIDAY, JULY 8,

1994

OVER

EXPORTS AND INCREASED BY

THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON,

PRICES OF DOMESTIC IMPORT PRICES

THE RE-EXPORTS BOTH INCREASED BY 0.8%.

1.5%.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

COMPARING APRIL 1994 WITH APRIL 1993, THE VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS OF ALL END-USE CATEGORIES RECORDED INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDES

MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES (+22%), FUELS (+21%), RAW (+17%), CONSUMER GOODS (+7.1%) AND CAPITAL GOODS (+2.6%).

FOODSTUFFS

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS OF 2.1% CAPITAL GOODS, FOODSTUFFS AND CONSUMER GOODS INCREASED BY 2.8%, AND 1.1% RESPECTIVELY. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE RE-EXPORT

AND RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES DECREASED BY FUELS, 1.0% RESPECTIVELY.

OF PRICES

16% AND

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 2.

COMPARING APRIL 1994 WITH APRIL 1993, COMMODITY GROUPS WHICH RECORDED INCREASES IN VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCLUDED TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES (+15%) AND METAL MANUFACTURES (+4.0%).

ON THE OTHER HAND, CONSIDERABLE DECREASES IN THE VOLUME OF

EXPORTS DOMESTIC

WERE RECORDED FOR RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-61%) AND DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (-21%).

COMMODITY GROUPS WHICH RECORDED INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT HANDBAGS PRICES INCLUDED ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+4.9%), TRAVEL GOODS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES (+3.9%) AND RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (+3.3%).

OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES WERE TEXTILE FABRICS (-3.9%) AND

AND METAL ORES

SCRAPS

RECORDED (-3.2%).

THE ON

FOR

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF IMPORTS END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.

BY

THE IMPORT VOLUME OF FOODSTUFFS INCREASED BY 13% IN APRIL 1994 AS COMPARED WITH APRIL 1993.

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORT WHEAT AND FLOUR; SOYA BEAN OIL, PEANUT OIL, VEGETABLE OIL AND LARU;

MEAT AND MEAT PREPARATION. AND

RECORDED HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE

IN THE IMPORT VOLUME OF SWINE AND FRUIT.

VOLUME OF

THE OVER

SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE CONSUMER GOODS INCREASED BY 5.1%.

VOLUME IMPORT

OP

COMMODITY ITEMS WITH CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN IMPORT VOLUME INCLUDED RADIOS, TELEVISION SETS, GRAMOPHONES, RECORDS, TAPE RECORDERS A MARKED AND AMPLIFIERS; AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES. ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASE IN IMPORT VOLUME WAS NOTED OF PASSENGER MOTOR CARS.

THE IMPORT VOLUME OF RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES INCREASED BY 13% IN APRIL 1994 AS COMPARED WITH APRIL 1993.

/SIGNIFICANT INCREASES