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Appendix IX
(Chapter 6: Industry and Trade)
Principal Commodities Imported
Principal commodities imported, with quantities and values, during 1958, and comparative figures for the two preceding years:
Rice (cwt.)
Raw cotton (cwt.)
Cotton piece-goods
(bleached) (sq. yd.)..
Swine (nos.)
Artificial textiles
(sq. yd.)
Watches and watch movements (nos.)
Diamonds, cut and
polished
Furnace fuel oils (ton)
Sugar (cwt.)
Cotton piece-goods
1956
Quantity
1957
1958
Quantity
Value HK$
Value
Quantity
HK$
Value HK$
5,557,880 191,685,546 6,162,008 214,047,979 7,509,386 266,225,097 1,305,086 254,266,681 1,385,706 257,435,957 1,345,943 212,563,587
159,732,482 205,097,287 162,652,603 214,970.756 148,987,584 196,285,796 548,537 88,556,608 543,127 92,370,005 835,960 125,898,284
134,823,576 165,591,401 112,831,147 143,758,152 69,539,660 108,536,743
3,014,099 118,695,177 4,021,629 174,946,571
2,386,806 105,006,315
85,012,658
93,619,811
725,464 100,065,004
97,785,318
699,823 81,989,905
760,466 91,165,235
2,398,000 72,624,921 2,138,481 81,326,755 2,656,656 82,197,386
(unbleached) (sq. yd.) 114,221,462 98,429,327 118,182,462 100,100,368 108,080,425 77,966,567
Woollen piece-goods
(sq. yd.)
Plants, seeds, flowers.
for medicines,
perfumery, etc. (cwt.) Bed linen, table linen
and kitchen linen
Poultry, live (lb.)
Cotton yarn and thread
(lb.)
Cigarettes (lb.) ..
Bovine cattle, including
buffaloes (nos.)
Fresh vegetables (cwt.)
Iron and steel bars and
rounds (cwt.)
Cement (cwt.)
Passenger road motor
vehicles, complete, other than buses or motor cycles (nos.) Gas oil, diesel fuel,
distillate stove oil (ton)
Yarn and thread of
synthetic fibres and spun glass (lb.) Tea (lb.)
Iron and steel black
plates (cwt.)
Mild steel plates and
sheets, uncoated (cwt.)
Textile machinery and
accessories
Plates and sheets, zinc
coated (galvanized) (cwt.)
8,980,237 82,628,045 11,008,102 102,849,207 7,881,632 72,412,441
602,047 77,492,629 467,192 84,972,762 1,031,261 68.276,758
39,047,723
52,690,693
60,919,457
20,477,878 38,426,660 27,455,071 44,906,818 37,574,521 57,799,680
36,542,411 103,607,275 39,360,993 97,068,344 17,755,050 49,799,952 3,925,699 36,615,009 4,642,353 47,070,440 4,784,769 49,700,121
79,802 34,568,797 2,471,835 32,654,742
83,411 39,385,276
3,398,343 44,859,946
132,881 46,091,580
3,199,732 41,723,212
895,768 32,864,108 1,911,870 79,082,546 4,982,266 29,536,371)_5,711,884 32,928,023
1,290,019 37,011,538
6,661,626 35,328,637
3,381 30,959,655
4,529 42,973,575
3,724 34,837,347
176,854 34,377,837
160,929 29,895,504 178,254 36,243,649
24,007,957 67,721,392 15,448,013 57,387,472 6,909,461 29,585,850
14,397,354 26,321,506 15,340,835 29,792,532 14,035,914 29,569,679
1,007,155 38,063,584 702,204 29,237,034
816,705 27,097,158
730,861 29,443,680
860,501 42,545,899
677,258 26,108,769
20,482,312
37,354,260
23.141,169
865,410 59,449,719
595,671 45,653,717
128,300 6,956,278