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40201
1014
HONG KONG'S EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES
£'Million
COMMODITY
1959
1969
Clothing
51
266
Textile yarns, fabrics made up articles and related products
36
105
Miscellaneous manufactured
articles n.e.s.
20
181
Manufactures of metal n.e.s.
8
22
11..
1.
Footwear
7
21
Non-metallic mineral manufacturers
n.e.s.
4
48
Electrical machinery, apparatus and
appliances
'81
Scientific and controlling instruments, photographic and optical goods, watches and clocks
3
23
TOTAL ALL EXPORTS (fob)
205
907
Source: Census and Statistics Department Hong Kong
HONG KONG: ESTIMATED BALANCE OF PAYMENTS 1969
£'Million
SA
CURRENT ACCOUNT
Imports
GEO
Exports
Invisibles (net)
-951
916
119
CURRENT ACCOUNT BALANCE
BALANCE OF LONG-TERM CAPITAL
84
7
BALANCE OF CURRENT AND LONG-TERM CAPITAL
91
BALANCING ITEM
26
CHANGE IN RESERVES
(increase)
-117
Source: Paper for Working Party on World Economic Prospects,
dated June 1970
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