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Over the same period, re-exports of clothing fell by $1.4 billion, representing a decrease of 1.5% over a year earlier.

The value of domestic exports in December 1995, at $20.2 billion, increased marginally by 0.2% over a year earlier.

Comparing December 1995 with December 1994, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Taiwan (+28%), China (+8.4%) and the Netherlands (+0.1%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Canada, France, Singapore, Germany, the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom decreased by 15%, 7.8%, 5.8%, 4.8%, 4.7%, 2.2% and 2.2% respectively.

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

Comparing the year 1995 with the year 1994, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Taiwan (+31%), Japan (+14%), France (+13%), the Netherlands (+7.9%), the United Kingdom (+6.3%), China (+4.2%), Canada (+3.6%) and Singapore (+0.1%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Germany and the United States decreased by 4.9% and 0.3% respectively.

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the year 1995, at $231.7 billion, increased by 4.3% over the same period in 1994.

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

Comparing the year 1995 with the year 1994, increases in the value of domestic exports were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $7.1 billion or 29%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $884 million or 5.5%); clothing (by $715 million or 1%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $604 million or 3.1%); and plastics in primary forms (by $557 million or 14%).

Over the same period, decreases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $1 billion or 8.9%); and textiles (by $1 billion or 6.7%).

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