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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 $2.2 billion or 2.5%).

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

Comparing September 1996 with September 1995, the value of domestic exports to all main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes : Taiwan (- 27%), Singapore (-21%), the United States (-20%), China (-9.7%), Canada (-8.2%), the United Kingdom (-8%), Japan (-7.4%), the Netherlands (-6.9%), France (-3.1%) and Germany (-2.1%).

Comparing the first nine months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of domestic exports to all main destinations also showed decreases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (-15%), Singapore (-15%), the United States (-13%), Canada (- 9.4%), the Netherlands (-8.8%), France (-7.8%), Germany (-6.8%), China (-5.5%), Japan (-3.1%) and the United Kingdom (-1.4%).

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first nine months of 1996, at $156.5 billion, decreased by 8.9% over the same period in 1995.

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

Comparing the first nine months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of domestic exports of most principal commodity divisions decreased. More notable decreases were registered for clothing (by $4.1 billion or 7.6%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $3.9 billion or 28%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $1.7 billion or 21%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $1.5 billion or 9.9%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $1.2 billion or 9.8%); and plastics in primary forms (by $434 million or 13%).

Over the same period, an increase in the value of domestic exports was registered for professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (by $211 million or 9.8%).

Changes in the value of imports from 10 main suppliers are shown in Table 5.