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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1982
RE-EXPORTS TO INDONESIA SHOWED INCREASES FOR ROAD MOTOR VEHICLES (INCLUDING AIR CUSHION VEHICLES) (BY $97 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT), OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUIT FOR EXTRACTION OF VEGETABLE OILS (BY $72 MILLION OR 2 265 PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF METALS (BY $61 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT). DECREASES IN VALUE WERE RECORDED FOR TEXTILE FIBRES (BY $17 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT) AND MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY 22 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT).
INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE WERE NOTED FOR
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS (BY $53 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT), SPICES (BY $23 MILLION OR 88 PER CENT), CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $15 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT) AND THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $6 MILLION OR THREE PER CENT).
RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN INCREASED SLIGHTLY (BY $12 MILLION OR ONE PER CENT). NOTABLE INCREASES IN VALUE WERE MARKED FOR FISH, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS AND THE PREPARATIONS (BY $57 MILLION OR 61 PER CENT), PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS(BY $31 MILLION OR 91 PER CENT) AND NON-FERROUS METAL (BY $19 MILLION OR 195 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN VALUE WERE MARKED FOR WOVEN COTTON FABRICS (BY $17 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $20 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT) AND PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $41 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT).
RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
RE-EXPORTS BROKEN DOWN BY MAJOR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ARE SHOWN BELOW -
JAN - JUNE 1982 ($ MILLION)
JAN JUNE 1981 ($ MILLION)
INCREASE/
PERCENTAGE
DECREASE
CHANGE
($ MILLION)
%
CHINA
6 918
5 731
+1 187
+21
JAPAN
4 227
3 878
348
U.S.A.
2 334
1 812
522
+29
TA IWAN
1 482
1 754
272
-16
REP. OF KOREA
(SOUTH KOREA)
778
846
68
CHINA WAS STILL THE LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS (BY $1 187 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT). INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS OF CHINA ORIGIN WERE NOTED FOR WOMEN'S, GIRLS' AND INFANTS' OUTERGARMENTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS (BY $137 MILLION OR 63 PER CENT); MEN'S AND BOYS' OUTERGARMENTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS (BY $116 MILLION OR 120 PER CENT); TEXTILE YARN (BY $100 MILLION OR 93 PER CENT); WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (BY $71 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT) AND PREPARED OR PRESERVED VEGETABLES, ROOTS AND TUBERS (BY $63 MILLION OR 50 PER CENT).
/MOST RE. KY PORTED.