11 April 1983
Mr Ray Whitney (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will estimate China's gross foreign exchange earnings from Hong Kong over the past five years for which records are available, and the percentage of those figures represented by visible exports.
No 152W
MR DOUGLAS HURD
were:
China's visible exports to Hong Kong over the last five years
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
f sterling million
1173.1
1425.4
1896.1.
2601.8
3084.4
No accurate and complete figures are available to Her Majesty's Government for China's gross foreign exchange earnings from Hong Kong. However, visible earnings are estimated to represent between 60 80% of China's gross foreign exchange earnings from Hong Kong.
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