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Comparing the first 11 months of 1994 with the same period in 1993, the value of re-exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Japan (+24%), Australia (+20%), China (+19%), Singapore' (+19%), the United States (+17%), the United Kingdom (+13%), Canada (+11%), the Republic of Korea (+7.5%), Germany (+3.0%) and Taiwan (+1.6%).

Table 2 shows the changes in the value of re-exports of the 10 principal commodity divisions.

Comparing the first 11 months of 1994 with the same period in 1993, increases of various magnitudes were recorded in the value of re-exports of most principal commodity divisions.

More notable increases were registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $23.5 billion or 35%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $13.6 billion or 22%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $13.4 billion or 13%); textiles (by $10.7 billion or 17%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $7.4 billion or 29%); and footwear (by $5.6 billion or 13%).

Over the same period, a decrease in the value of re-exports was recorded for road vehicles (by $1.3 billion or 4.3%).

The value of domestic exports in November 1994 continued to increase, by 6.8% over a year earlier to $20.5 billion.

Comparing November 1994 with November 1993. increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Japan (+29%), the Netherlands (+28%), the Philippines (+13%), the United Kingdom (+8.4%), Singapore (+7.7%). Germany (+3.4%), the United States (+3.1%) and China (+1.4%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Taiwan and Canada decreased by 4.1% and 1.8% respectively.

The changes in the value of domestic exports to the 10 main destinations are shown in Table 3.

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