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However, the value of domestic exports to Germany decreased slightly by 2.4%.

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first two months of 1995, at $32.9 billion, increased markedly, by 14% over the same period in 1994.

Table 4 shows changes in the value of domestic exports of 10 principal commodity divisions.

Comparing the first two months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, increases in the value of domestic exports were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $1.1 billion or 34%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $941 million or 41%); clothing (by $563 million or 6.1%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $417 million or 20%); and telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $267 million or 18%).

Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for textiles (by $20 million or 1.0%); and manufactures of metals (by $9 million or 1.4%).

The value of imports continued to increase substantially, by 26% over a year earlier to $99.7 billion in February 1995.

Changes in the value of imports from 10 main suppliers are shown in Table 5.

Comparing February 1995 with February 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+101%), South Korea (+51%), Malaysia (+45%), Japan (+37%), Taiwan (+37%), Singapore (+37%), the United States (+23%), Germany (+20%), China (+14%) and the United Kingdom (+11%).