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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 domestic exports of all principal commodity divisions. More notable increases were, registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $1.4 billion or 26%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $1.3 billion or 34%); clothing (by $1.3 billion or 9.9%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $610 million or 19%); plastics in primary forms (by $278 million or 34%); professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (by $232 million or 54%); and miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $213 million or 5.0%).

The value of imports continued to increase substantially, by 26% over a year earlier to $121.6 billion in March 1995.

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

Comparing March 1995 with March 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+62%), Malaysia (+52%), South Korea (+37%), the United States (+32%), Taiwan (+29%), China (+27%), Japan (+17%), the United Kingdom (+14%), France (+7.5%) and Germany (+6.7%).

Comparing the first quarter 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+86%), Singapore (+58%), Malaysia (+42%), South Korea (+39%), the United States (+30%), Taiwan (+29%), Japan (+24%), China (+23%), the United Kingdom (+19%) and Germany (+17%).

The value of imports in the first quarter of 1995, at $326.3 billion, increased markedly, by 27% over the same period in 1994.

Table 6 shows changes in the value of imports of 10 principal commodity divisions.

Comparing the first quarter of 1995 with the same period in 1994, increases were recorded in the value of imports of all principal commodity divisions. More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $11.5 billion or 41%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $8.9 billion or 36%); textiles (by $6.9 billion or 29%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $4.4 billion or 49%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $3.8 billion or 23%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $2.7 billion or 23%); and footwear (by $1.8 billion or 16%).

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