APPENDICES
Appendix IV
(Chapter 6: Industry and Trade)
Trade
Value of Hong Kong's Merchandise Trade
(To nearest hundred million $)
367
Imports
Exports
Re-exports Total trade
1960 1959
·
共
% increase
1960
1959
over 1959
$ million $ million
5,900
4,900
+ 20%
2,900
2,300
+ 26%
1,100
1,000
+ 10%
9,800
8,300
+ 18%
Cargo Tonnages
1960 Imports $5,864 million
Commodity Pattern
8.2 million tons
7.6 million tons
Manufactured goods
Food
Crude inedible materials
Machinery
Chemicals
Miscellaneous_manufactured articles
33%
23%
12%
10%
8%
7%
1960 $ million
1959 $ million
Textile yarn, fabrics, and made-up articles
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material
Base metals
1,932
1.604
+ 20%
1,044
892
+ 17%
302
205
+ 47%
Silver, platinum, gems and jewellery
212
164
+ 29%
Paper, paperboard and manufactures thereof
134
114
+ 18%
Food
1,353
1,238
+ 9%
Cereals
317
316
Nil
Fruits and vegetables
264
248
+ 6%
Live animals
248
224
+ 11%
Dairy products
128
109
+17%
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels
687
556
+ 24%
Textile fibres
337
267
+ 26%
Animal and vegetable crude materials
155
121
+ 28%
Wood lumber and cork ..
87
76
+ 14%
Machinery and transport equipment
599
426
+ 41%
Non-electric machinery
269
177
+ 52%
Electric machinery
176
152
+
+ 16%
Transport equipment
154
98
+ 57%
Chemicals
466
392
+ 19%
Miscellaneous chemical products
177
141
+ 26%
Medicinal and pharmaceutical products
109
90
+ 21%
Miscellaneous manufactured articles
427
356
++ 20%
Scientific and controlling instruments, photographic
and optical goods, watches and clocks
176
138
+ 28%