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Over the same period, re-exports of clothing fell by $2 billion, representing a decrease of 3.3% over a year earlier.

The value of domestic exports in August 1995, at $20.5 billion, decreased slightly, by 2.6% over a year earlier.

Comparing August 1995 with August 1994, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Taiwan (+46%), Japan (+15%), France (+9.7%), the Netherlands (+4.5%) and the United Kingdom (+3.2%). However, the value of domestic exports to Germany, Canada, the United States, Singapore and China decreased by 15%, 13%, 10%, 4.7% and 1.2% respectively.

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

Comparing the first eight months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (+35%), Japan (+23%), France (+23%), the Netherlands (+13%), the United Kingdom (+6.2%), China (+6.1%), Canada (+6%), Singapore (+4,9%) and the United States (+2.7%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Germany decreased by 2.9%.

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first eight months of 1995, at $150.8 billion, increased by 7.5% over the same period in 1994.

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

Comparing the first eight 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 $4.2 billion or 26%); clothing (by $2 billion or 4.4%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $1.3 billion or 12%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $1.2 billion or 12%); and miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $672 million or 5.4%).

Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $565 million or 7.4%); and textiles (by $369 million or 3.8%).