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DOMESTIC INCREASES WERE SINGAPORE (+16%),

CHINA

AUGUST 1994 WITH AUGUST 1993, THE VALUE OF COMPARING EXPORTS TO MALAYSIA INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY BY 46%. ALSO RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE NETHERLANDS (+13%), THE UNITED STATES (+12%), JAPAN (+11%), (+3.4%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+0.2%).

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA, TAIWAN DECREASED BY 6.4%, 2.3% AND 1.6% RESPECTIVELY.

THE

GERMANY

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

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KINGDOM (-

COMPARING THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME IN 1993, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS CANADA (-13%), GERMANY (-11%), CHINA (-5.9%), THE UNITED 5.9%) AND TAIWAN (−2.6%).

SINGAPORE, 6.8%,

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MALAYSIA, THE NETHERLANDS, THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN INCREASED BY 8.9%, 2.4%, 1.5% AND 0.3% RESPECTIVELY.

PERIOD IN

TAKING ALL, DESTINATIONS TOGETHER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS

DECREASED BY IN THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1994, AT $140.3 BILLION, 2.7%

SAME OVER THE

THE 1993.

PARTLY THIS REFLECTED CONTINUED STRUCTURAL SHIFT TO RE-EXPORTS AND PARTLY THE WEAK DEMAND IN OVERSEAS MARKETS.

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

IN

FOR

AND

OF

PERIOD REGISTERED APPARATUS

GOODS,

COMPARING THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME 1993, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING EQUIPMENT (BY $1.4 BILLION OR 16%); TEXTILES (BY $1.1 BILLION 9.9%) PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL

AND CLOCKS WATCHES

{BY $726

OR MILLION

6.9%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY OF JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $718 MILLION OR 5.5%); AND OFFICE MACHINES AND

0%). AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $338 MILLION OR 3.

OVER

AND

VALUE OF

SAME

THE THE

PERIOD, A MODERATE INCREASE IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1.4 BILLION OR 9.3%).

VALUE THE

OF IMPORTS IN AUGUST

AT 1994, INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY BY 18% OVER A YEAR EARLIER.

$109.7

AND

BILLION,

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

SUPPLIERS

OF IMPORTS COMPARING AUGUST 1994 WITH AUGUST 1993, THE VALUE FROM ALL OF THE MAIN SUPPLIERS SHOWED INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDES: ITALY (+32%), GERMANY (+28%), SINGAPORE (+24%), CHINA (+22%), MALAYSIA (+19%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+17%), TAIWAN (+13%), JAPAN REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+7.4%) AND THE UNITED STATES (+4.3%),

(+10%), THE

/COMPARING THE