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Myanmar's External Trade.




Myanmar: Current Account Balance and Foreign Exchange Reserves, 1974/75 to
1990/91
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YEAR                    CURRENT                 FOREIGN                 
                              ACCOUNT                EXCHANGE
                              BALANCE                 RESERVES (FERs)*

1974/75                 -4,348                          1,078.2

1975/76                 -3,352                          893.3
1976/77                 -4,130                          759.0
1977/78                 -13,327                        869.6
1978/79                 -23,316                        860.1
1979/80                 -17,533                        1,676.5
1980/81                 -15,353                        1,894.7
1981/82                 -2,713                          1,586.5
1982/83                 -4,247                          622.6
1983/84                 -18                               874.1
1984/85                 -1,917                          489.0
1985/86                 -2,396                          430.3
1986/87                 -1,809                          346.6
1987/88                 -1,783                          490.6
1988/89                 -1,077                          780.2
1989/90                 -153                            2,993.5
1990/91                 -2,884                          2,340.4

* Year ending in March.

Source: Report to the Pyithu Hluttaw (various issues); Review of Financial,
Economic and Social Conditions (1991).

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Myanmar: Exports to Southeast Asia, 1981-90
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                                1981    1982    1983    1984    1985    1986
1987    1988    1989    1990

Indonesia                   31.2     22.8     26.4      21.0    21.1
20.1     15.3    10.3     10.6     10.1    
Malaysia                    9.9       20.4     8.4        6.6       6.7
6.4        4.8       3.3     5.4        8.6     Philippines
-           -            -          -           -         2.14     1.04
0.35    0.7           -  
Thailand                     43.4     55.0      36.8    29.2     29.4
28.0     21.2     14.3     25.3    46.2     

ASEAN total              88.0     111.7   74.6     59.2     59.7     56.8
43.0    29.1     57.4    103.9               

Vietnam                     -           2.0        1.9       1.7        1.3
1.3        1.2     0.7         0.9     1.2
Laos                          -             -           -           -
-         -             -       -              -        -  

SEA total                  90.0     113.6       76.3    60.5    61.0
58.0      44.0   29.8     58.3   105.1            
World total               446        391        378      301     303
288      219     147      250     325

- = Not significant.
Source: International Monetary Fund, Direction of Trade Statistics (various
issues).

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