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Domestic exports (in value terms)

Third Quarter

1986

($Mn)

($Mn)

(응)

Third

Jan- Quarter Growth Sept Sept

1985

rate 1986 1985

($Mn) ($Mn)

Jan-

Growth

rate

(૪)

All countries

43,013

34,535

25

108,386

94,942 14

USA

18,111

16,085

13

45,947

42,209

9

China

4,855

3,604

35

12,204

11,522

6

FR Germany

3,088

1,996

55

7,662

5,567 38

UK

2,797

2,180

28

7,021

6,078 16

Japan

1,750

1,284

36

4,126

3,337 24

Canada

1,442

1,293

11

3,633

3,208 13

Australia

942

890

6

2,411

2,475 -3

Singapore

780

549

42

2,009

1,655 21

Netherlands

808

510

59

1,908

1,480 29

Rest of the

world

8,439

6,145

37

21,465 17,411 23

2.4

with the

The value of domestic exports to Canada, Australia, Singapore and the Netherlands grew by 11%, 6%, 42% and 59% respectively in the third quarter of 1986 compared with same quarter in 1985. The value of domestic exports to rest of the world also grew, by 37%

(3).

Domestic exports by major commodity groups

2.5

of 1985,

to the

Comparing the third quarter of 1986 with the third

quarter

domestic exports in most of the major

commodity groups increased, including notably clothing (by about 19% in real terms), textiles (about 55%), domestic

electrical appliances (about 25%), radios (about 30%), and

metal manufactures (about 19%).

Domestic exports

electronic components, however, grew by only 1%.

of

/Growth

(3) No estimates are available for the growth rates of domestic exports

to these markets in real terms.

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