((8)
Latest 3 months
Domestic Exports Re-exports Total Exports Imports
Trade balance
Same month last year
Domestic Exports
(% of Total Exports)
Re-exports
Total Exports
Imports
Trade balance
Last month
Domestic Exports
(% of Total Exports)
PRESS RELEASE
TRADE FIGURES FOR AUGUST, 1992
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The Census and Statistics Department has released the bllowing provisional merchandise trade figures for August:-
MERCHANDISE: Domestic Exports :
Re-exports
Total Exports Imports
Trade balance
COMPARATIVE FIGURES
Jun 92 to
Aug 92 HK$ Mn.
63,325
Jun 91 to
Aug 91 HK$ Mn.
60,353
$20,834 million $60,943 million $81,777 million
$79,371 million $2,406 million
(in surplus)
Increase
HKS Mn.
2,972
4.9
180,839
138,028
42,811
31.0
244,164
198,381
45,783
23.1
248,958
199,429
49,529
24.8
-4,794
1,048
-3,746
August
1992
August 1991
Increase
HK$ Mn.
HK$ Mn.
HK$ Mn.
20,834
20,364
470
2.3
(25.5%)
(30.1%)
60,943
47,205
13.738
29.1
81,777
67,569
14,208
21.0
79.371
66,755
12,616
18.9
2,406
814
1,592
August
July
Increase
1992
1992
HK$ Mn.
HK$ Mn.
HK$ Mn.
20,834
21,380
-546
-2.6
(25.5%)
(26.0%)
Re-exports
Total Exports
Imports
Trade balance
60,943
60,782
161
0.3
81,777
82,162
-385
-0.5
79,371
84,966
5,595
6.6
2,406
-2,804
210
Calendar year to-date
Domestic Exports
(% of Total Exports)
Re-exports
Jan-Aug 1992
Jan-Aug
Increase
1991
HKS Mn.
HK$ Mn.
HK$ Mn.
$
149,155
.146,467
2,688
1.8
(25.7%)
(30.8%)
430,957
328,825
102,132
31.1
Total Exports
Imports
Trade balance
580,112
475,292
104,820
22.1
606,983
495,058
111,925
22.6
-26,871
-19,766
-7,105
Increase
Last 12 months
Domestic Exports Re-exports Total Exports Imports
Trade balance
Sep 91 to Aug 92 HK$ Mn.
233,733
636,973
870,706
890,907
-20,201
Sep 90 to
Aug 91 HK$ Mn.
230,267
485,230
715,497
735,572
-20,075
HK$ Mn.
3,466
do
151,743
31.3
155,209
21
155,335
21.1
-126
24th September, 1992
CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT