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Indirect trade with China totaled 19.1 billion US dollars in the first 11 months of 1995. up 27.5 per cent from the same period in 1994. the economics ministry announced here yesterday, reports AFP

The island exported 16.28 billion dollars worth of products to the mainland via a third area, principally Hong Kong between January and November, an increase of 21.9 per cent, the ministry said.

ft imported 2.86 billion dollars worth of products from China, a sharp increase of 73.6 per cent from the same period in 1994.

The export and import values accounted for 15.9 per cent and three per cent, re spectively. of Taiwan's total trade.

The government here has banned direct trade and other economic activities with the mainland since the end of a civil war in 1949. It only permitted its people to engage in indirect trade in