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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
For WRITTEN ANSWER on __13_April_1983
Text of Question
Head of HKGD
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Tuesday 12 Apil
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.
My Douglas Hurd
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China's visible exports to Hong Kong over the last five years were:
£ sterling million
152
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1173.1
1425.4
1896.1
2601.8
3084.4
No accurate and complete figures are available to HMG for China's
gross foreign exchange earnings from Hong Kong.
earnings are estimated to represent between 60
gross foreign exchange earnings from Hong Kong.
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However, visible
80% of China's
Minister
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