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35.6% of total domestic exports), the U.K. (£61.7 million or 17.2%) and the E.E.C. (£40.8 million or 11.4%) (see Annex B). Hong Kong's domestic exports to the U.K. rose by 9% per annum
between 1960 and 1966: her exports to the E.E.C. rose by
over 28% per annum over the period. In absolute terms,
domestic exports to the U.K. rose by about £25 million, and
to the E.E.C. by over £31 million. About two-thirds of the
increase in exports to the E.E.C. were to West Germany, which
took 64.5% of Hong Kong's domestic exports to the Community
in 1966. France's imports from Hong Kong, altnough increasing,
were still less than 1% of Hong Kong's domestic exports.
The U.K.'s share of Hong Kong's domestic exports has tended to
fall in recent years; after rising from 20.4% in 1960 to
22.5% in 1963, it fell to 17.1% in 1965 and 17.2% in 1966.
The E.E.C.'s share has risen steadily from 5% in 1960 to
11.4% in 1966 (see Annex C and D).
4. Hong Kong's main exports to us (including re-exports)
were as follows (their value in each case is expressed in
the first bracket as a percentage of total exports of that
item and in the second bracket as a percentage of Hong Kong's
total exports of all commodities):
Clothing
Textile Yarn Fabrics and made up Articles
£20.8 million (18.5%) (5.1%)
£15.4 million
(23.4%)
(3.8%)
Miscellaneous manufactured items
£6.9 million
(11.0%)
(1.7%)
Footwear
Machinery, Apparatus and Appliances
Precious Metals and Jewellery
Manufactures of Metal
Fixtures and Fittings
£ 3.8 million
(39.5%)
(0.9%)
£ 2.7 million
(11.6%) (0.7%)
£2.4 million
£ 0.97 million
£ 0.75 million
(12.6%) (0.6%)
(8.9%) (0.2%)
(10.7%)
(0.2%)
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