Table 4: UK Trade Performance in Manufactures(SITC 5-8) in 1984 with:
Country
Unit: £ million
Export/Imports ratios
Exports
Imports
USA
6 477
7 707
84%
France
3 403
4 556
75%
Hong Kong
820
1 233
67%
Italy
1 952
3 258
55%
FRG
4 910
9 979
49%
Japan
736
3 646
20%
Source:
Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom
Table 5: Hong Kong's Imports of Manufactures:
Shares Held by Main Industrial Suppliers
(a) 1984 imports manufactures*
HK$ m
(b)
share of HK market (main suppliers)
% age
(c)
share of world trade (main
suppliers)
% age
(d)
relative performance HK market/
world (b/c x 100)
UK
7 993
9.0
8.9
101%
West Germany
5 296
6.0
21.1
28%
France
2 296
2.6
10.0
26%
Italy
2 923
3.3
9.0
37%
USA
18 776
21.2
20.0
106%
Canada
942
1.1
7.6
14%
Japan
50 311
56.8
23.4
243%
13
Total
88 537
100.0
100.0
Sources:
(a) Hong Kong Trade Statistics
*
(c) UK Monthly Review of External Trade
Statistics (discounting 14.2% share
held by 'other main manufacturing countries')
SITC Divisions 5-8