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Over the same period, re-exports of clothing fell by $648 million, representing a small decrease of 2.0% over a year earlier.

The value of domestic exports in May 1995, at $20.0 billion, increased notably by 13% over a year earlier.

Comparing May 1995 with May 1994, the value of domestic exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (+46%), Japan (+32%), the Netherlands (+29%), China (+15%), the United Kingdom (+12%), the Philippines (+11%), Germany (+9.5%), Canada (+5.2%), the United States (+5.1%) and Singapore (+2.9%).

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

Comparing the first five months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Japan (+28%), Taiwan (+26%), the Netherlands (+15%), the Philippines (+14%), Canada (+9.7%), Singapore (+9.5%), China (+8.8%), the United States (+7.4%) and the United Kingdom (+5.6%).

0.5%.

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

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first five months of 1995, at $87.5 billion, increased markedly, by 11% over the same period in 1994.

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

Comparing the first five 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 $2.2 billion or 24%); clothing (by $2.0 billion or 9.0%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $1.5 billion or 23%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $973 million or 17%); and plastics in primary forms (by $443 million or 30%).