Growth rates in real terms of retained imports by end-use categories (%)
Raw materials
Consumer
and semi-
Foodstuffs
goods Fuels
manufactures
Capital goods
1981/1980
-2
10
8
4
9
1981/1980 Q1
2
26
2
5
15
Q2
-1
25
1
1
16
Q3
-5
5
3
15
12
Q4
-1
-6
30
-2
-7
1981/1980 H1
0
25
2
3
15
H2
-3
-1
15
6
2
1982/1981 Q1
2
-4
10
-11
-9
Q2(*) 8
2
7
-5
-26
1982/1981 H1(*) 5
-1
8
-8
-19
Note: (*)
Estimated by using trade indexes
indexes available up to
May 1982.
Re-exports
The value of re-exports,
2.12
at $21,417 million, was 10%
higher than in the first half of 1981. On the basis of trade
indexes available up to May, there was an increase of 13% in
prices and re-exports declined in real terms by 3%. This is
in sharp contrast with the four years 1978 to 1981 when
re-exports grew on average by almost 30% a year. But as the growth rate of re-exports in value terms continued to exceed the corresponding growth rate for domestic exports of goods, the percentage share of the value of re-exports in the value
of total exports increased further to 36% in the first half of
this year, compared with 35% in the first half of
1981.
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