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I URSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1994

RE-EXPORTS

IN

THE VALUE OF

THE FIRST HALF OF 1994 WAS $428.3 BILLION, 14% HIGHER THAN THAT IN THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

1993,

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN (+25%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+20%), CHINA (+17%), THE UNITED STATES (+15%), THE SINGAPORE (+11%), REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+14%), THE NETHERLANDS (+12%), GERMANY (+6.0%) AND FRANCE (+2.1%).

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN DECREASED MILDLY

BY

1.2%.

TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS OF THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

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1993,

VALUE OF RE-

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDES WERE RECORDED IN THE EXPORTS OF MOST PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

$12.1 AND

MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY BILLION OR 39%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $5.8 BILLION OR 19%); TEXTILES (BY $4.8 BILLION OR 14%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY OR OF BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $4.3 BILLION 9.5%); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $3.4 BILLION OR 26%); AND FOOTWEAR (BY $3.3 BILLION OR 15%).

OF RE- OVER THE SAME PERIOD, A SLIGHT DECREASE IN THE VALUE EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (BY $224 MILLION OR 1.3%).

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN JUNE 1994, AT $19.7 INCREASED BY 6.4% OVER A YEAR EARLIER.

INCREASES

WERE

+

BILLION,

EXPORTS

TO

(+18%),

MALAYSIA KINGDOM

RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC THE NETHERLANDS

JAPAN (+23%), SINGAPORE (+30%), (+12%), TAIWAN (+12%), THE UNITED STATES (+8.4%), THE UNITED (+3.9%) AND CHINA (+3.5%).

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA HOWEVER, DECREASED BY 11% AND 7.5% RESPECTIVELY.

AND

GERMANY

THE

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

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MAIN

1993,

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA

CHINA (-15%),

(-7.3%), GERMANY (-11%), THE UNITED KINGDOM TAIWAN (-3.2%), JAPAN

STATES (-0.8%) (-1.2%), THE UNITED

(-7.1%), AND THE

NETHERLANDS (-0.2%).

VALUE OF DOMESTIC

EXPORTS ΤΟ SINGAPORE

AND

THE HOWEVER, MALAYSIA INCREASED BY 5.5% AND 1.0% RESPECTIVELY.

TAKING ALL DESTINATIONS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN

THE FIRST HALF OF 1994, AT $98.7 BILLION, DECREASED BY THE SAME PERIOD

1993. IN

THIS

PARTLY RE-EXPORTS AND PARTLY THE WEAK

STRUCTURAL SHIFT TO

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

REFLECTED

THE

4.3% OVER CONTINUED

DEMAND IN

THE

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