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Over the same period, decreases in the value of re-exports were registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $2.4 billion or 2.2%); and plastics in primary forms ($1.0 billion or 3.6%).

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

Comparing November 1996 with November 1995, the value of domestic exports to most main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: Singapore (-25%), Taiwan (-16%), Canada (-11%), the United States (-5.9%), Japan (-5.6%), Germany (-3.4%), the United Kingdom (-2.1%), France (-1.4%) and the Netherlands (- 1.3").

However, the value of domestic exports to China increased by 6.6%.

Comparing the first 11 months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, the value of domestic exports to all main destinations showed decreases of various magnitudes: Singapore (-18%), Taiwan (-16%), the United States (-12%), Canada (-9.8%), the Netherlands (-8.3%), France (-7.3%), Germany (-5.7%), Japan (-3.5%), China (-3.3%) and the United Kingdom (-1.7%).

Taking all destinations together, the value of domestic exports in the first 11 months of 1996, at $193.9 billion, decreased by 8.3% over the same period in 1995.

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

Comparing the first 11 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 office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $4.5 billion or 27%); clothing (by $4 billion or 6,1%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $1.9 billion or 20%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $1.8 billion or 11%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares (by $1.7 billion or 9.3%); and electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $851 million or 3%).

Over the same period, an increase in the value of domestic exports was registered for professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (by $354 million or 13%).