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Appendix XVI
(Chapter 4: Industry and Trade)
Trade
Value of Hong Kong's Merchandise Trade
Imports... Exports... Re-exports Total trade
1968 1967
1968
1967
% increase or decrease
$ million $ million
12,472
10,449
+ 19%
8,428
6,700
+ 26%
2,142
2,081
+ 3%
23,042
19,230
20%
Cargo Tonnages
Appendix XVII
(Chapter 4: Industry and Trade) Imports: Commodity Pattern
1968 total value $12,472 million
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material
Food and live animals
Machinery and transport equipment
Miscellaneous manufactured articles
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels Chemicals
►
1967
1968
$ million $ million
11.9 million tons
11.5 million tons
% of total imports in 1968 32% 20%
13
11
106°
8%
% increase or decrease
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material
Textile yarn, fabrics and made-up articles Non-metallic mineral manufactures
Paper, paperboard and manufactures thereof Iron and steel
Non-ferrous metals...
Manufactures of metals, n.e.s.
Food and live animals
Cereals and cereal preparations
*
+
3,976
3,137
+27
2,108
1,563
+35
853
715
+19
318
244
30
228
240
5
207
141
47
121
123
*
2,468
2,329
603
+
637
5%
Fruit and vegetables
Live animals
Meat and meat preparations
Fish and fish preparations...
Dairy products and eggs
Sugar, sugar preparations and honey
Miscellaneous food preparations
Machinery and transport equipment
Electrical machinery
Non-electric machinery
·
Transport equipment
508
438
356
365
39
252
206
•
251
239
202
190
*
Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices and manufactures thereof
98
89
91
...
68
76
68
1,604
1,347
922
756
482
416
+
200
174
Miscellaneous manufactured articles
Scientific and controlling instruments, photographic and
optical goods, watches and clocks
Miscellaneous manufactured articles, n.e.s.
1,366
1,100
...
526
409
514
427
Clothing
Footwear
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels
•
Textile fibres
Oil-seeds, oil nuts and oil kernels
205
163
53
...
42
1,261
986
840
578
Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials
Crude animal and vegetable materials Wood, lumper and cork
Metalliferous ores and metal scrap
Crude rubber, including synthetic and reclaimed
Chemicals
Chemical elements and compounds
Medicinal and pharmaceutical products
Essential oils and perfume materials
210
220
66
52
-
41
38
39
32
27
40
1,041
861
Plastic materials, regenerated cellulose and artificial resins
312
268
204
...
165
202
163
139
111
107
87
+++++++++++++++ +++++·
22
+16
+ 15
+ 24
+ 29
+ 20
+ 26
26
28
45
+21
33
21
16
24
+26
++ 23