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Comparing the first four months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of re-exports to all main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes : Singapore (+29%), Japan (+26%), France (+22%), Taiwan (+21%), China (+21%), the Netherlands (+19%), the United States (+17%), South Korea (+17%), the United Kingdom (+7.1%) and Germany (+3.2%).

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

Comparing the first four months 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 electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $9.4 billion or 41%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $8.9 billion or 32%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $6.5 billion or 62%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $6.2 billion or 21%); textiles (by $6.2 billion or 27%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $2.7 billion or 23%).

Over the same period, re-exports of clothing fell by $904 million, or 3.4% over a year earlier.

The value of domestic exports in April this year, at $16.9 billion, increased slightly by 1.5% over a year earlier.

Comparing April 1995 with April 1994, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Taiwan (+28%), Canada (+9.0%), the Philippines (+8.4%), Singapore (+5.2%), the Netherlands (+3.4%), Japan (+2.7%) and the United States (+0.8%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Germany, the United Kingdom and China decreased by 8.1%, 4.9% and 1.5% respectively.

Changes in the value of domestic exports to ten main destinations are shown in Table 3.

Comparing the first four months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed increases of various the Philippines (+14%), the Netherlands magnitudes: Japan (+27%), Taiwan (+22% (+12%). Singapore (+11%), Canada (+11%), the United States (+8.1%), China (+7.0%) and the United Kingdom (+3.8%).