134
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Reference
No. of
Relevant
Table
INDICES ON BASE
Base
Monthly Average
Monthly Average
1948
1949
Monthly Average
1950
Monthly Average, 1947
excess of exports
$1,033,796
125.1
$1,284,500
155.5
$1,872,759
226.7
(Canvas
and
Rubber)
(v) Electric
Torches &
Flashlight Batteries
($826,262) over
imports
100
Monthly Average, 1947
$1,721,549
excess of exports
118.9
$3,419,088
236.1
$2,914.344
197.2
($1,447,848) over
imports
100
(vi) Rattan
Monthly Average, 1947
$177,857
$341,386
Furniture
excess of exports
112.8
216.5
$691,594
438.5
($157,709) over
imports
100
(vii) Rope
Monthly Average, 1947
$96,193
$115,479
$278,322
excess of exports
($82,242) over
117.0.
140.4
338.4
imports
100
229
Exports of certain
commodities
manufactured in
Hong Kong
*
(contd.):
(iv) Boots &
Shoes
*
Note:-These indices are not indices of production, but simply of the excess of exports over imports.