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TELEGRAM NUMBER CREDA 56 OF 17 FEBRUARY
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YOUR CREDAS 18 AND 19: HONG KONG TELEVISION AND RADIO EXPORTS
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1. ARMED WITH THE HELPFUL FIGURES IN YOUR TURS I CALLED YESTERDAY ON THE DIRECTOR OF CUSTOMS. COPIES OF COMPARATIVE STATISTICS FOLLOW BY BAG. ALTHOUGH THE HONG KONG STATISTICS OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR 1909 ARE CLASSIFIED BY SITC RATHER THAN CCCN CODE NU DERS, WE IDENTIFIED THE FOLLOWING MAJOR DISCREPANCIES:-
(A) MONOCHROME TELEVISION RECEIVERS. UK IMPORT STATISTICS SHOW A TOTAL OF 38,104 SETS IMPORTED FROM HONG KONG. THE CORRESPONDING HONG KONG FICURES SHOW 37,:47 SETS DESPATCHED TO THE UNITED KINGDOM OF WHICH 27,784 WERE RE-EXPORTS
(B) OTHER RADIO BROADCAST RECEIVERS
(1) UK STATISTICS SHOW I PORTS OF CLOCK RADIOS (COOK CODE NO. 8515 1950) FROM HONG KONG AS 2,338,624 SETS, THIS CORRESPONDS WITH A HONG KONG TOTAL EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS FIGURE OF 2,160,722 SETS LISTED AS RADIO BROADCAST PECEIVERS WITH CLOCKS,
(11) HONG KONG EXPORT STATISTICO ALSO SHOW 200 SETS EXPORTED → 116 SETS RE-EXPORTED UNDER OTHER RADIO BROADCAST RECEIVERS (INCLUDING COMPLETE SET OF HI-FI (QUIPMENT) TICORPORATING SOUND RECORDERS OR REPRODUCERS, ADDED TOGETHER THESE FIGURES ROUGHLY MATCH THE 301 FIGURE FOR UK IMPORTS OF TUNEA-AMPLIFIERS LISTED UNDER CCCN COL 8515 1945.
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