The fall in domestic exports was mainly due to oil
domestic exports, which posted a sharp decline
of 34 per cent in the first quarter. This was in turn
attributed to the continued weakness in oil prices,
which depressed the nominal value of oil domestic
exports. In volume terms, oil domestic exports
increased by 1.0 per cent. Non-oil domestic exports
(NODX) also contracted by 9.0 per cent, faster than
the 3.5 per cent decline in the previous quarter. The
decrease in NODX was due to declines in both nonelectronic
and electronic NODX.