ELECTRICAL MACHINERY,
APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES
(MAINLY TRANSISTORS AND DIODES AND
HOUSEHOLD TYPE
APPLIANCES)
1 244
ON
FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1980
828
416
50
THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM TEN MAJOR SOURCES ARE SUMMARIZED AS FOLLOWS :-
JAN-APR 80
(HK$ M)
JAN-APR 79
(HK$ M)
INCREASE (HK$ M)
PERCENTAGE CHANGE
JAPAN
7 481
5 594
+ 1 887
34
CHINA
6 086
3 985
+ 2 101
53
U.S.A.
3 975
2 849
• 1 126
40
TAIWAN
2 369
1 719
650
38
SINGAPORE
2 265
1 295
970
75
U.K.
1 652
1 191
461
39
REP. OF KOREA
1 113
742
371
50
F.R. OF GERMANY
995.
840
155
18
SWITZERLAND
883
798
85
11
THAILAND
566
431
135
31
IMPORT DEMAND FOR JAPANESE GOODS REMAINED STRONG, INCREASES WERE NOTED PARTICULARLY FOR ROAD VEHICLES (BY $301 MILLION OR 91 PER CENT), TEXTILES (BY $216 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT), TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $190 MILLION OR 38 PER CENT), IRON AND STEEL (BY $180 MILLION OR 53 PER CENT) AS WELL AS WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $127 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT).
IMPORTS FROM CHINA ROSE CONSIDERABLY, MAINLY OF PETROLEUM AND RELATED PRODUCTS (BY $396 MILLION OR 122 PER CENT), TEXTILES (BY $268 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT), CLOTHING (BY 264 MILLION OR 127 PER CENT), LIVE ANIMALS CHIEFLY FOR FOOD (BY $95 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT), AND MEAT AND MEAT PREPARATIONS (BY $78 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT).
INCREASES IN IMPORTS FROM THE U.S, WERE LARGELY OF ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, AND CELLULOSE ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $316 MILLION OR 228 PER CENT), TEXTILE FIBRES AND THEIR WASTES (BY $152 MILLION OR 60 PER CENT), OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $146 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT), AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES (BY $70 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS OF PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $14 MILLION OR 5 PER CENT).
/SIGNIFICANT INCREASES
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