Appendix IX
(Chapter 6: Industry and Trade)
Principal Commodities Imported
Principal commodities imported, with quantities and values, during 1955, and comparative figures for the two preceding years:
245
1958,
1954
1955
Quantity
Value H.K.$
Value Quantity H.K.$
Value
Quantity
H.K.$
Swine (nos.)
487,130 89,761,070
623,520 108,380,529
Poultry (lb.)
Fresh
vegetables (cwt.).
400,871 69,722,385
20,915,339 34,262,288 21,648,459 39,343,822 18,259,430 34,983,079
1,894,285 24,593,547 2,248,605 34,820,288 2,033,207 33,942,248 Milk, tinned (lb.) 27,606,817 33,458,849 21,177,705 23,997,355 23,507,632 23,147,335 3,072,995 56,739,668 2,788,051 50,460,492
6,139,121 318,907,436 2,113,853 86,973,521
Eggs (gross)
Rice (cwt.)
Flour (cwt.)
Beans & peas (cwt.)
Sugar (cwt.)
Tea (lb.)
..
Tobacco (lb.)
Soya beans (cwt.).
Raw cotton (cwt.)
Coal (cwt.)
Furnace fuel
oil (ton)
Cotton yarn
894,918 28,789,405
704,882 26,245,510
2,772,647 47,727,756
5,181,792 177,290,484
662,706 20,375,979
878,734 24,389,919
719,784 28,991,303
1,645,160 53,083,124 3,314,424 107,461,653 2,030,310 58,430,630 1,974,345 58,248,352 12,996,221 28,188,813 14,523,208 33,170,707 16,470,763 34,848,141 11,941,454 58,091,058 12,152,530 51,509,393 11,027,529 55,116,816
246,754 10,139,372
753,353 155,192,471
4,137,662 18,441,606
820,328 33,263,374
1,074,166 227,550,511
444,817 15,518,354
785,672 164,602,069
4,092,384 16,819,299 4,925,590 18,690,034
447,896 45,265,670 533,642 51,725,815 541,177 54,432,292
and thread (lb.). 10,892,176 41,246,012 13,133,443 44,883,763 12,972,440 38,627,883
Cotton piece-goods
(unbleached)
(sq. yd.)
Cotton piece-goods
Tung oil (cwt.)...
33,232,302 33,005,499 52,639,084 43,728,123 69,602,318 55,084,146
(bleached) (sq. yd.) 68,112,700 92,464,661 53,769,605 81,241,545 67,886,749 98,781,721
Watches and watch
265,945 33,126,517 115,388 10,911,046
movements (nos.). 2,734,272 96,384,121 2,357,044 85,146,795
Artificial
109,167 12,375,846
2,067,655 76,498,165
textiles (sq. yd.).. 55,420,371 80,886,061 75,942,678 98,982,900 90,645,197 125,185,355
Woollen piece-
goods (sq. yd.)
Groundnut
oil (cwt.)
2,024,588 31,456,171, 6,355,365 74,746,067
9,140,393 95,093,898
329,778 38,186,463 167,480 18,775,508
357,403 30,649,253
Plants, seeds,
flowers, for
medicines,
perfumery (cwt.).
475,475 59,826,228
624,471 64,426,452 884,985 63,658,024
Sulphate of
ammonia (cwt.)... 2,163,695 40,821,277 6,137,839 110,540,295 2,985,992 55,055,335
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