Exports fell 13.1 percent in the first nine months of the year.

Exports fell to $12.6 billion, down 16.6 percent from a year ago.

Exports fell back in August and are still down 20pc from a year ago.

Exports, at Z$1.5 billion, would fall by nearly a third.

Exports from the port fell in each of the last three years.

Exports fell 23 percent in the half, to 567,133 units.

Exports fell, but at a far slower rate than in recent months.

The exports fell a percentage point during the first two months of 1990, to $876 million, compared with the same period a year ago.

Over all, exports of goods and services fell 1.2 percent in June, to $64.48 billion.

The August data certainly didn't - total exports fell 3.7 percent.