WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1983
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RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
RE-EXPORTS BY 10 MAJOR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN ARE GIVEN IN TABLE 2.
CHINA REMAINED THE LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS. INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS WERE NOTED FOR CLOTHING (BY $583 MILLION OR 50 PER CENT), WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (BY $91 MILLION OR 37 PER CENT), SILK (BY $87 MILLION OR 168 PER CENT), TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (BY $86 MILLION OR 55 PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS CRUDE VEGETABLE MATERIALS, MAINLY PLANTS AND SEEDS USED IN PERFUMERY OR IN PHARMACY (BY $73 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT), AND OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUIT, WHOLE OR BROKEN, OF A KIND USED FOR THE EXTRACTION OF 'SOFT' FIXED VEGETABLE OILS (BY $66 MILLION OR 66 PER CENT).
JAPAN WAS THE SECOND MAJOR SOURCE OF RE-EXPORTS. INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $289 MILLION OR 48 PER CENT), TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $116 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS DIODES, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS (BY $85 MILLION OR 50 PER CENT) AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, PARTS AND ACCESSORIES (BY $73 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT).
OVERSEAS PURCHASES OF U.S.A. PRODUCTS THROUGH HONG KONG REMAINED ACTIVE FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1983. INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN AIRCRAFT AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, AND PARTS (BY $69 MILLION OR 121 PER CENT), MANUFACTURED TOBACCO (BY $62 MILLION OR 98 PER CENT) AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $37 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT).
ON THE OTHER HAND, RE-EXPORTS OF TAIWAN ORIGIN DECLINED. SIGNIFICANT DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (BY $277 MILLION OR 65 PER CENT), TEXTILE YARN (BY $86 MILLION OR 35 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $46 MILL FON OR 62 PER CENT).
RE-EXPORTS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA) ORIGIN ALSO DECLINED PARTICULARLY FOR WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (BY $84 MILLION OR 40 PER CENT).
RE-EXPORTS BY ORIGIN AND DESTINATION
WHEN ANALYSED BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND THEN BY DESTINATION, INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS OF CHINA ORTGIN TO THE U.S.A. (BY $637 MILLION OR 40 PER CENT), SAUDI ARABIA (BY $180 MILLION OR 87 PER CENT), CHINA (BY $162 MILLION OR 72 PER CENT) AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA) (BY $159 MILLION OR 60 PER CENT).
INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS OF JAPAN ORIGIN WERE MAINLY TO CHINA (BY $244 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (BY $190 MILLION OR 44 PER CENT) AND NETHERLANDS (BY $110 MILLION OR 504 PER CENT).
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE ALSO NOTED IN RE-EXPORTS OF U.S.A. ORIGIN TO CHINA (BY $94 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT) AND U.S.A. (BY $48 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT).
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