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0.7%.

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

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first half of 1995, at $108.1 billion, increased markedly, by 9.4% over the same period in 1994.

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

Comparing the first half 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 $2.8 billion or 24%); clothing (by $2.2 billion or 7.7%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $1.5 billion or 19%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $884 million or 12%); and plastics in primary forms (by $459 million or 25%).

Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $511 million or 9.1%); and textiles (by $117 million or 1.6%).

The value of imports continued to increase substantially, by 16% over a year earlier to $128.9 billion in June 1995.

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

Comparing June 1995 with June 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes : France (+74%), Malaysia (+42%), South Korea (+30%), the United Kingdom (+30%), Germany (+19%), Taiwan (+17%), China (+15%), Japan (+12%), Singapore (+9.4%) and the United States (+1.5%).

Comparing the first half of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+83%), Malaysia (+43%), South Korea (+34%), Singapore (+33%), the United States (+30%), Taiwan (+25%), Germany (+23%), the United Kingdom (+22%), Japan (+20%) and China (+19%),

The value of imports in the first half of 1995, at $711.4 billion, increased markedly, by 24% over the same period in 1994.