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More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $28.5 billion or 38%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $19.7 billion or 22%); office machines and automatic data processing machines, (by $18.6 billion or 57%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $18.1 billion or 16%); textiles (by $10.4 billion or 14%); and plastics in primary forms (by $8.8 billion or 47%).

Over the same period, re-exports of clothing fell by $1.5 billion, representing a decrease of 1.7% over a year earlier.

The value of domestic exports in November 1995, at $18.8 billion, decreased by 7.9% over a year earlier. This was partly due to a relatively high base of comparison in November last year, when domestic exports showed an increase of 6.8%.

Comparing November 1995 with November 1994, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: the Netherlands (-16%), Germany (-14%), France (-13%), the United States (-12%), Singapore (-10%), China (-7.8%), Canada (-4.9%), Japan (-3.3%) and the United Kingdom (-2.9%).

22%.

However, the value of domestic exports to Taiwan increased substantially, by

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

Comparing the first 11 months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (+31%), France (+16%), Japan (+15%), the Netherlands (+9%), the United Kingdom (+7.3%), Canada (+6%), China (+3.8%), Singapore (+0.6%) and the United States (+0.2%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Germany decreased by 5%.

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first 11 months of 1995, at $211.5 billion, increased by 4.7% over the same period in 1994.

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