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Comparing the first quarter of 1995 with the same period in 1994, 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 $8.3 billion or 43%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $7.7 billion or 45%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $5.3 billion or 25%); textiles (by $5.3 billion or 34%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $3.9 billion or 51%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $2.2 billion or 26%).

Over the same period, a decrease in the value of re-exports was recorded for clothing (by $724 million or 3.6%).

The value of domestic exports in March 1995, at $17.6 billion, increased by 11% over a year earlier.

Comparing March 1995 with March 1994, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Japan (+33%), Taiwan (+26%), Canada (+16%), the United Kingdom (+16%), the Philippines (+14%), the United States (+10%), the Netherlands (+8.8%) and China (+3.9%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Singapore and Germany decreased slightly by 0.7% and 0.5% respectively.

Table 3.

Changes in the value of domestic exports to 10 main destinations are shown in

Comparing the first quarter of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Japan (+35%), Taiwan (+19%), the Philippines (+16%), the Netherlands (+14%), Singapore (+13%), Canada (+12%), the United States (+11%), China (+11%) and the United Kingdom (+6.6%).

1.8%.

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

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first quarter of 1995, at $50.6 billion, increased markedly, by 13% over the same period in 1994.

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