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More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $6.3 billion or 15%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $5.2 billion or 24%); clothing (by $3.4 billion or 11%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $2.7 billion or 5.7%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $2.4 billion or 12%); and footwear (by $2.2 billion or 9.3%).

Over the same period, a decrease in the value of re-exports was registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $431 million or 1%).

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

Comparing May 1996 with May 1995, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: France (-27%), Canada (- 25%), Taiwan (-18%), the Netherlands (-18%), the United States (-16%), China (- 11%), Singapore (-9.2%), Germany (-8.8%) and Japan (-0.7%).

The value of domestic exports to the United Kingdom nevertheless increased by 2.5%.

Comparing the first five months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of domestic exports to the United Kingdom and Taiwan increased by 4.7% and 0.7% respectively.

Decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to the United States (-10%), Singapore (-9.7%), Canada (-8.6%), France (-7.8%), the Netherlands (-7%), Germany (-5.2%), China (-2.9%) and Japan (-2%).

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first five months of 1996, at $82.4 billion, decreased by 5.9% over the same period in 1995.

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

Comparing the first five months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, increases in the value of domestic exports were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $1.4 billion or 12%); and machinery specialised for particular industries (by $146 million or 12%).