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Subject: Japan Doing a Thin Trade with SLORC? 

JAPAN DOING A THIN TRADE WITH BURMA UNDER SLORC?

Released by ISBDA, December 30, 1995.

According to the trade data of Japanese Custom Department as cited in the
business daily Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (12/25), Japan's export to Burma since
1988  is decreasing while import value is rising.
Although the busy trade between Japan and Burma via the routes of
Singapore, Thailand  and other ASEAN countries is not accounted in the
list, Japanese trading houses like Marubeni, Mitsui & Co., etc., have taken
up this data  for expansion of their business with SLORC leaders who  build
a Military-Centered Market Economy in Myanmar.

The following is table of trade since 1988 in million US dollars. The
figures in parenthesis indicate percentage increase compared to previous
year.
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Year            Export                            Import                 Balance
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1988             183.77(--)                   32.33 (--)          151.54
1989             106.53(-42.0)              34.04 (5.6)           72.49
1990             101.10 (-5.1)               41.47 (21.8)         59.63
1991              82.41 (-18.5)              49.35(19.0)          33.06
1992              96.54 (17.1)                48.52 (-1.7)         48.02
1993              99.52 (3.1)                   71.12 (46.6)        19.29
1994              67.75 (-31.9)               75.73 (6.3)         - 7.98
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Main Goods in Trade

Export: Automobile, Steel, Motor Cycle, Heavy and Light Machinary
Import: Fish and Prawns, Hard Woods,  Non-Ferrous Raw Material, Petroleum
Products 

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