TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1982
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SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE OF THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $272 MILLION OR 207 PER CENT), TEXTILE MADE-UP ARTICLES (BY $45 MILLION OR 107 PER CENT) AND PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $36 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT).
IN CONTRAST, RE-EXPORTS TO SWITZERLAND DECLINED (BY $185 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT).
NOTABLE DECREASES WERE RECORDED MAINLY IN SILVER, PLATINUM AND OTHER METALS OF THE PLATINUM GROUP (BY $36 MILLION OR 94 PER CENT), SCRAP AND SWEEPINGS OF PRECIOUS METALS (OTHER THAN OF GOLD) (BY $38 MILLION OR 90 PER CENT), AND COINS NOT CURRENTLY IN USE (BY $75 MILLION OR 99 PER CENT).
RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIQIN
RE-EXPORTS BROKEN DOWN BY MAJOR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ARE
SHOWN BELOW 1
1981 (HK$ MN.)
1980
(HK$ MN.)
INCREASE (HK$ MN.)
PERCENTAGE
CHANGE
CHINA
12 834
8 394
+4 440
+53%
JAPAN
8 394
5 884
+2 510
+43%
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4 041
3 157
884
+28%
TAIWAN
3 379
2 134
+1 245
+58%
REP. OF KOREA
1 954
877
+1 077
+123%
CHINA REMAINED THE LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS. INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS OF CHINA ORIGIN WERE NOTED FOR MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, MAINLY BASKET-WORK, WICKER- WORK AND ARTICLES OF PLAITING MATERIALS (BY $290 MILLION OR 44 PER CENT), WOVEN COTTON FABRICS (BY $286 MILLION OR 78 PER CENT), WOMEN'S GIRLS AND INFANTS OUTER GARMENTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS (BY $248 MILLION OR 92 PER CENT), VEGETABLES, ROOTS AND TUBERS (BY $237 MILLION OR 218 PER CENT), AS WELL AS OIL SEEDS AND CLEAGINOUS FRUIT FOR EXTRACTION OF VEGETABLE OILS (BY $226 MILLION OR 320 PER CENT).
MOST RE-EXPORT COMMODITIES OF JAPAN ORIGIN SHOWED STRONG GROWTH, THE MORE SIGNIFICANT ONES BEING GOODS VEHICLES AND SPECIAL PURPOSE MOTOR VEHICLES (BY $515 MILLION OR 249 PER CENT), MOTORCYCLES, MOTOR SCOOTERS AND OTHER CYCLES (BY $472 MILLION OR 85 PER CENT), TELEVISION RECEIVERS (BY $175 MILLION OR 116 PER CENT), AND THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $114. MILLION OR 53 PER CENT).
/OVERSEAS PURCHASES
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