Comparing the first 11 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 $6.1 billion or 27%); clothing (by $1.2 billion or 1.9%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $1 billion or 6.8%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $558 million or 3.1%); and plastics in primary form (by $527 million or 15%).
Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $941 million or 8.8%); and textiles (by $865 million or 6.3%). The value of imports continued to increase, by 6.7% over a year earlier to $124.9 billion in November 1995.
Changes in the value of imports from 10 main suppliers are shown in Table 5.
Comparing November 1995 with November 1994, increases were recorded in the value of imports from France (+76%), Malaysia (+41%), Singapore (+21%), the United States (+20%), South Korea (+6.8%), China (+5.7%) and Taiwan (+4,8%). However, the value of imports from Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan decreased by 16%, 12% and 2.7% respectively.
Comparing the first 11 months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of imports from all main suppliers showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+84%), Malaysia (+44%), the United States (29%), South Korea (+28%), Singapore (+27%), Taiwan (+21%), the United Kingdom (+20%), China (+15%), Japan (+14%) and Germany (+12%).
The value of imports in the first eleven months of 1995, at $1,363.5 billion, increased by 20% over the same period in 1994.
Table 6 shows changes in the value of imports of 10 principal commodity
divisions.
Comparing the first I months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, increases were recorded in the value of imports of most principal commodity divisions.
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