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Comparing the first half of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of re- exports to all main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+34%), Japan (+28%), Taiwan (+25%), France (+25%), the Netherlands (+23%), China (+22%), the United States (+16%), South Korea (+13%), the United Kingdom (+11%) and Germany (+6.9%).

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

divisions.

Comparing the first half 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 $15.8 billion or 43%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $11.4 billion or 27%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $10.2 billion or 63%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $9.6 billion or 19%); textiles (by $8.3 billion or 22%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $4.6 billion or 25%).

Over the same period, re-exports of clothing fell by $1.1 billion, representing a small decrease of 2.6% over a year earlier.

The value of domestic exports in June 1995, at $20.6 billion, increased by 4.5% over a year earlier.

Comparing June 1995 with June 1994, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Taiwan (+49%), the Philippines (+27%), Canada (+15%), Japan (+8.3%), the United Kingdom (+6.6%), the Netherlands (+6.6%) and China (+2.9%). However, the value of domestic exports to Singapore, the United States and Germany decreased by 6.1%, 1.3% and 1.3% respectively.

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

Comparing the first half of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (+30%), Japan (+24%), the Philippines (+16%), the Netherlands (+13%), Canada (+11%), China (+7.6%), Singapore (+6.4%), the United Kingdom (+5.8%) and the United States (+5.6%).