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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1980
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RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET
THE FOLLOWING TABLE GIVES THE CHANGES IN HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS TO THE FIVE MAJOR MARKETS:
INCREASE/
JAN JUNE 80
(HK$ M.)
JAN JUNE 79
(HK$ M.)
DECREASE (HK$ M.)
PERCENTAGE
CHANGE
CHINA
1 662
444
+ 1 218
+ 274
USA
1 259
914
345
38
INDONESIA
1 226
760
466
61
TAIWAN
1 203
864
339
39
JAPAN
1 095
1 379
284
21
REMARKABLE INCREASES WERE OBSERVED IN RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (BY $1 218 MILLION OR 2.7 TIMES), WHICH NOW BECOMES THE LARGEST MARKET FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS. THE COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE TEXTILE YARN (BY $229 MILLION OR 7.8 TIMES), PLYWOOD CONSISTING SOLELY OF SHEETS OF WOOD (EY $87 MILLION OR 20.0 TIMES), WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRE (BY $84 MILLION OR 11.1 TIMES), CRUDE VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $78 MILLION OR 2.4 TIMES), AND TELEVISION RECEIVERS (BY $61 MILLION OR 1.8 TIMES).
INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S. WERE REGISTERED IN WOMEN'S, GIRLS' AND INFANTS' OUTER GARMENTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS (OTHER THAN KNITTED OR CROCHETED GOODS) (BY $40 MILLION OR 146 PER CENT), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $36 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT), PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $20 MILLION OR 8 PER CENT), AND EXPLOSIVES AND PYROTECHNIC PRODUCTS (BY $16 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT).
RE-EXPORTS TO INDONESIA SHOWED INCREASES FOR MOTORCYCLES, MOTOR SCOOTERS AND OTHER CYCLES (BY 3164 MILLION OR 328 PER CENT), TEXTILE AND LEATHER MACHINERY AND PARTS THEREOF (BY $26 MILLION OR 96 PER CENT), POLYMERIZATION AND COPOLYMERIZATION PRODUCTS (BY $23 MILLION OR 120 PER CENT), AND TEXTILE YARN
(BY $18 MILLION OR 67 PER CENT).
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS
TO TAIWAN OF THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $155 MILLION OR 126 PER CENT), CRUDE VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $36 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT), AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $21 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT),
IN CONTRAST, RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN DROPPED (BY $284 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT). NOTABLE DECREASES WERE RECORDED MAINLY IN TEXTILES (BY $165 MILLION OR 64 PER CENT), FISH, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS, AND PREPARATION THEREOF (BY $63 MILLION OR 41 PER CENT), AND PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (DY $26 MILLION OR 7 PER CENT).
/RE-EXPORTS BY