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Over the same period, re-exports of clothing fell by $1.2 billion, representing a decrease of 1.7% over a year earlier.

The value of domestic exports in September 1995, at $21.1 billion, increased by 6.2% over a year earlier.

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Comparing September 1995 with September 1994, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Taiwan (+36%), the United Kingdom (+23%), Canada (+16%), France (+16%), the Netherlands (+11%), China (+7.2%) and the United States (+4.5%). However, the value of domestic exports to Singapore, Germany and Japan decreased by 14%, 9.2% and 0.7% respectively.

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

Comparing the first nine 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%), France (+22%), Japan (+20%), the Netherlands (+13%), the United Kingdom (+8.2%), Canada (+7.1%), China (+6.2%), the United States (+3%) and Singapore (+2.5%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Germany decreased by 3.5%.

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first nine months of 1995, at $171.9 billion, increased by 7.3% over the same period in 1994.

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

Comparing the first nine 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 $5 billion or 27%); clothing (by $2.3 billion or 4.5%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $1.4 billion or 12%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $1.3 billion or 11%); and miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $628 million or 4.4%).