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The value of imports, exports and re-exports by main groups for Jan.-Sept. 1971 and Jan.-Sept. 1981 are shown below:-
1971 Jan.-Sept.
1981 Jan.-Sept.
Imports HK$'000
Exports Re-exports Imports Exports Re-exports HK$'000 HK$'000 HK$'000 HK$'000 HK$'000
Food, beverage
and tobacco
Crude materials
2,836,822 209,665 273,489 1,118,175 118,014 149,466
11,340,790 4,300,823
864,549 1,762,216
710,080 2,540,503
Mineral fuels and
lubricants
476,250
Animal and vegetable
oils, fats and waxes
86,510
Chemical and related
products
1,115,429
2,940
89,737
32,342 8,106,322
7,018 289,559
418,127 6,585,677
68,354 337,911
5,332 41,374
531,966 2,580,615
Manufactured goods
classified chiefly
by materials
4,935,131
Machinery and
transport equipment Miscellaneous manu- factured articles
1,436,485
2,623,962 1,201,835
1,769,163 7,096,689
963,193
242,648
346,941
29,401,809 6,250,736
8,952,247
23,740,318 10,975,429
7,445,587
16,658,618 38,450,620
6,229,107
Commodities and
transactions not classified according to kind and trans- action in gold and coin
32,300
31,509 13,492
Merchandise total Gold and specie
14,993,740 10,186,874 2,446,718
281,916
137,045
434,595 232,110 323,730
100,858,512 58,089,177 30,213,289
7,125,234
75,230
Grand total
15,212,656 10,186,874 2,583,763 107,983,746 58,089,177
Direction of Merchandise Trade by percentage
30,288,519
Imports from
Japan
China
U.S.A.
Taiwan
Singapore
Jan.-Sept.
1971
1981
24
23
15
21
13
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5
8
3
8
Exports to
U.S.A.
42
36
U.K.
14
9
Federal Republic of Germany
8
Q
Japan
3
4
China
0.1
3
Re-exports to
China
U.S.A.
Indonesia
Singapore
Japan
19
9
9
10
20
2=9×7
With over 2 million visitors a year, Hong Kong is without doubt one of the main tourist centres in Asia. There were 1.8 million visitors in Jan.--Sept. 1981, who were provisionally estimated to have spent HK$5.35 billion.
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