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Comparing the three months ending January 1996 with the three months ending January 1995, increases of various magnitudes were recorded in the value of re- exports of all principal commodity divisions. More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $5.8 billion or 24%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $5.1 billion or 44%); plastics in primary forms (by $2.5 billion or 44%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $2.3 billion or 7.4%); textiles (by $2.1 billion or 9.9%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $2 billion or 16%); and footwear (by $1.9 billion or 13%).

The value of domestic exports in January 1996, at $19 billion, increased by 4.5% over a year earlier.

Comparing January 1996 with January 1995, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Taiwan (+32%), China (+23%), the United Kingdom (+4.3%) and France (+1.2%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Canada and the United States decreased by 8.5%, 4.4%, 4.3%, 4.3%, 2.9% and 2.8% respectively.

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

Comparing the three months ending January 1996 with the three months ending January 1995, decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Canada (- 8.4%), Germany (-7.7%), the United States (-6.8%), Singapore (-6.7%), France (- 6.6%), the Netherlands (-5.9%), Japan (-4.7%) and the United Kingdom (-0.5%).

However, the value of domestic exports to Taiwan and China increased by 27% and 6.6% respectively,

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