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Exports up 18.5% from January

GOING STRONG Shipments to Hong Kong, China, six ASEAN member countries and South Korea all saw growth of more than 31 percent last month from a year earlier

By Joyce Huang and Kevin Chen  /  STAFF REPORTERS

However, surging consumer prices and a weakening global economic outlook could see households scale back, resulting in a drop in imports in the coming months, said Sumei Tang, a Sydney-based economist at Moody's Economy.com.

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