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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1994

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EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR SEPTEMBER 1994 RELEASED

DETAILED

STATISTICS

THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY

EXTERNAL TRADE ON

WITH COUNTRY/TERRITORY AND COMMODITY FOR SEPTEMBER 1994.

(FRIDAY)

RELEASED

BREAKDOWN

BY

MARKED

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN SEPTEMBER 1994 CONTINUED TO SHOW

TO BY 17%

$88.1 INCREASE OVER A YEAR EARLIER,

A

BILLION.

COMPARING SEPTEMBER 1994 WITH SEPTEMBER 1993, RECORDED IN

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (+29%), (+21%), CANADA

SINGAPORE (+18%), THE UNITED (+7.8%) AND TAIWAN (+0.6%).

STATES

INCREASES WERE

JAPAN (+15%),

(+23%),

FRANCE

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA GERMANY DECREASED BY 7.7% AND 2.6% RESPECTIVELY.

AND

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS TO MAIN DESTINATIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

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THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1994 $687.8 BILLION, 15% HIGHER THAN THAT IN THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993.

WAS

COMPARING THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN TO JAPAN 1993, INCREASES

RE-EXPORTS WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF (+23%), CHINA (+18%), THE UNITED STATES (+16%), SINGAPORE (+14%), UNITED KINGDOM (+13%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+8.6%), CANADA GERMANY (+4.3%) AND FRANCE (+3.7%).

THE

(+8.4%),

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN DECREASED

SLIGHTLY

BY 1.1%.

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

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COMPARING THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993, INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDES WERE RECORDED IN THE RE-EXPORTS OF MOST PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

VALUE OF

MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY BILLION OR 36%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY OF BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $9.1 BILLION OR ELECTRICAL 11%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND PARTS THEREOF (BY $8.7 BILLION OR 18%); TEXTILES (BY $8.5 BILLION 16%); OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY BILLION OR 26%); AND FOOTWEAR (BY $4.9 BILLION OR 14%).

$18.3

OR $5.3

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, A DECREASE IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (BY $297 MILLION OR 1.2%).

THE

VALUE OF

DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN SEPTEMBER

BILLION, INCREASED BY 2.2% OVER A YEAR EARLIER.

COMPARING

AT 1994,

$19.9

WERE

INCREASES SEPTEMBER 1994 WITH SEPTEMBER 1993, RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MALAYSIA (+19%), SINGAPORE (+13%), JAPAN(+11%) AND THE UNITED STATES (+7.7%).

/HOWEVER, THE