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Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $302 million or 6.7%); and machinery specialised for particular industries (by $152 million or 12%).

The value of imports continued to increase substantially, by 28% over a year earlier to $133.4 billion in May 1995.

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

Comparing May 1995 with May 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: the United States (+62%), Malaysia (+45%), South Korea (+41%), the United Kingdom (+37%), Germany (+33%), Taiwan (+27%), Japan (+25%), China (+21%), Singapore (+12%) and France (+11%).

'Comparing the first five months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+85%), Malaysia (+43%), Singapore (+39%), the United States (+38%), South Korea (+34%), Taiwan (+27%), Germany (+24%), Japan (+23%), China (+21%) and the United Kingdom (+20%).

The value of imports in the first five months of 1995, at $582.4 billion, increased markedly, by 26% over the same period in 1994.

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

divisions.

Comparing the first five months 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 $19.8 billion or 40%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $11.7 billion or 27%); textiles (by $8.8 billion or 19%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $8.7 billion or 52%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $6.8 billion or 22%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $5.0 billion or 25%); and general industrial machinery and equipment, and machine parts (by $3.6 billion or 23%).

All the trade statistics described here are measured at current prices and no account has been taken of changes in prices between the periods of comparison.