Imports:
Production and Consumption:
Exports:
Argument in Suamer 1968:
Anoraks of continuous synthetic fibre, women's and girls
Imports are very heavily concentrated in the second half of each year. Over the past nine months of 1968, imports from Hong Kong rose less fast than total imports compared with 1967. However, heavy shipments in October, reversed this trend.
Hong Kong is far and away the largest supplier in the Swedish
market.
Consumption in the first nine months of 1968 was 30% higher than in 1967, but in the third quarter of 1968 it was stable. Product- ion in the first half of 1968 rose more than consumption, though again in the third quarter, this trend was reversed and production fell compared with 1967.
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In 1968 exports rose considerably, from 9 per cent of production in the third quarter of 1967 to 17 per cent in the third quarter of 1968. However, the rise in exports was insufficient to counter balance the increase in imports and stable consumption.
The rise in imports had not lod to a fall in Production, which rose every year since 1965.
Total anorak imports (Table IIIA)
(excluding cotton)
Total imports of jackets and anoraks have risen steeply since 1966, and Hong Kong's imports have more than kept pace. Her share of the Swedish market has risen as follows:-
Hong Kong % of total imports
#
1966
37.4
1967
59.7
•
1968
63.3
Hong Kong's major export, 40% of her anorak exports Jan-June in 1968, was men's and boy's anoraks of continuous, synthetic fibre. These were put under restraint in July 1968.