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43% on the previous year of Hong Kong's overall exports in 1976. The value and
volume of Chinese exports for
1967 and 1972-77 are shown in Table III.
TABLE III.
CHINESE EXPORTS TO HONG KONG
(US million)
1967 ||1972 % ||1973% ||19741%
11975 % 976 1977
Hong Kong
7
in Hong Kong
300
Reexports thro'
95
Hong Kong
Total Chinese Exports to
Exports retained
1
395 0 685 100|h1094 1100||1180 |100 ||1378 |100||1583 100||1734 100|
26
528 77 816 75 899 761060
157 23 278 25 281
25||
76 060 | 77 || 142 | 72 ||1253 72
24 318
24 318 23 || 441 | 28 || 481 28
Export Quantum
Index(1973
100)
N/A
86
100
80
100
114
estimated
Note: Re-exports are shown/c.i.f. value as they enter Hong Kong. Source: Hong Kong Government trade statistics publications
6.
Two-way Trade. Virtually the whole range of items the Chinese are now exporting
are sent to Hong Kong: Table IV shows the principal commodities in the trade. Food-
stuffs have remained the main constituent of Chinese exports although as a proportion
of China's total exports to Hong Kong they have fallen in 10 years from just over 50%
to just over 40% as Chinese exports have become more diversified. New products such
as frozen food (eg meat), petroleum products (from 1972 onwards) and textile fibres
have become more important. As the general export of Chinese light industrial goods
(eg lathes) has developed so these commodities have appeared in China's exports to
Hong Kong but as yet they comprise only a fractional proportion of total exports.
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