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To: DJBEINO who wrote (2693)	3/4/1998 11:32:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 9582

KOREA'S EXPORTS OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS DOWN FOR TWO YEARS SEOUL, March 5 Asia Pulse - Exports of South Korea's main export item, semiconductor chips, are being stalled for two years in a row, while the country's chip imports have remained at the two-digit level over the past four years. The surplus in semiconductor chip trade, which amounted to more than US$10 billion, has now withered to a mere $4.5 billion. The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) said chips exports have been skidding after hitting a peak in 1995 with exports of $22.1 billion. They fell to $17.8 billion the following year, down 19.3 percent, and to $17.4 billion last year, down 2.4 percent. The slowdown in exports over the past two years has been attributed to a rapid cut in the price of 16 Megabit DRAM chips. On the contrary, the imports of semiconductor chips amounted to $6.5 billion in 1994, $9.1 billion in 1995, and $10.5 billion in 1996. They amounted to $12.9 billion last year, up 22.2 percent from the year before. The surplus in chips trade, the highest in 1995 with $13 billion, declined to $7.3 billion the following year and then shrivelled to $4.5 billion last year. Production of central processing units in computers and semi-finished assembly package units of computers, where non-memory chips are needed, have been responsible for the increase in chip imports, and would continue to expand, industry sources said.