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Comparing 1994 with 1993, the value of re-exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Japan (+24%), Australia (+21%), Singapore (+19%), China (+18%), the United States (+16%), Canada (+12%), the United Kingdom (+11%), South Korea (+6.1%), Taiwan (+2.3%) and Germany (+2.0%).

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

Comparing the year 1994 with the year 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 $25.5 billion or 34%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $15.2 billion or 14%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $14.6 billion or 21%); textiles (by $11.6 billion or 16%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $8.3 billion or 29%); and footwear (by $6.0 billion or 13%).

Over the same period, a decrease in the value of re-exports was recorded for road vehicles (by $3.1 billion or 9.6%).

The value of domestic exports in December 1994, at $20.1 billion, fell by 2.2% over a year earlier.

Comparing December 1994 with December 1993, decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Taiwan (-14%), China (-11%), the United States (- 7.6%), Germany (-2.5%) and Singapore (-0.5%). However, the value of domestic exports to the Philippines, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada and the United Kingdom increased by 36%, 33%, 14%, 1.0% and 0.5% respectively.

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

Comparing the year 1994 with the year 1993, decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Canada (-12%), Germany (-8.3%), the United Kingdom (-4.4%), China (-3.7%) and Taiwan (-3.0%).

However, the value of domestic exports to the Philippines increased significantly by 29%. That to Japan, Singapore, the Netherlands and the United States increased by 8.0%, 7.8%, 5.6% and 1.9% respectively.