increased by 21% over the tharo quart last year. For the first three quarters as a whole, tot visible trade between Hong Kong and Chind rose by 33% to HK$87,657
million.
13.
In terms of Hong Kong's total domestic exports, China's share as a market was 10% in the third quarter of this year, compared with 8% in 1984 and 13% in the first half of this year. China also remained the largest market for long Kong's re-exports, accounting for 42% of total re-exports in the third quarter of 1985, against 34% in 1984 and 47% in the first half of this year.
Hong_Kong's exports to China
Domestic Growth
Growth
(3)
exports rate # Re-exports rate # (UK$Mn)
(HK$MI)
(0)
1st quarter of 1985
3,912
97
11,812
149
2nd quarter of 1985
4,006
57
12,826
132
3rd quarter of 1985
1st
3rd quarter of 1985
3,604
22
10,940
51
11,522
54
35,578
103
14.
same period of previous year
Due to China's clampdown on foreign exchange spending, the third quarter of 1985 saw a sharp tapering off in the growth rates of Hong Kong's domestic exports and re-exports to China. The foreign exchange freeze imposed by China in March 1985 was originally intended to last for only three months.
But there has to date been no
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