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1983 RE-EXPORT TRADE UP 27 PER CENT
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HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORT TRADE REACHED $56 294 MILLION IN 1983, AN INCREASE OF $11 941 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT - OVER THE 1982 FIGURE, ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET
GIVING A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET AND BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN FOR 1983, THE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT CHINA WAS AGAIN THE LARGEST MARKET FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS, WITH AN INCREASE OF $4 191 MILLION OR 52 PER CENT.
INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN TEXTILES (BY $495 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT) AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $428 MILLION OR 220 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN DYEING, TANNING AND COLOURING MATERIALS (BY $37 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT) AND CORK AND WOOD (BY $22 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT).
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S.A. (BY $2 413 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT), THE SECOND LARGEST MARKET FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS.
THE COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE CLOTHING (BY $851 MILLION OR 60 PER CENT) AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, MAINLY BASKET WORK, WICKERWORK AND WORK OF PLAITING MATERIALS (BY $392 MILLION OR 59 PER CENT), AND TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (BY $192 MILLION OR 114 PER CENT). NOTABLE DECREASES IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S.A. WERE RECORDED FOR FISH, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS, AND PREPARATIONS (BY $24 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT) AND POWER GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (BY $5 MILLION OR 11 PER CENT).
AN OVERALL INCREASE OF $875 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT IN RE-EXPORTS WAS REGISTERED FOR SINGAPORE, COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS (BY $124 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT) AND WATCHES
A DECREASE OF $27 AND CLOCKS (BY $124 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT).
MILLION OR 36 PER CENT WAS RECORDED FOR PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS.
INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO INDONESIA OF CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $111 MILLION OR 241 PER CENT), TEXTILE FIBRES (OTHER THAN WOOL TOPS) AND THEIR WASTES (BY $68 MILLION OR 160 PER CENT), AND IRON AND STEEL (BY $36 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT). A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (INCLUDING AIR CUSHION VEHICLES) (BY $712 MILLION OR 41 PER CENT).
SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS (BY $377 MILLION OR 60 PER CENT) AND TEXTLES (BY $62 MILLION OR 53 PER CENT) TO TAIWAN. A DECREASE OF $24 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT WAS RECORDED FOR NON-FERROUS METALS.
(CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS BY TEN MAJOR MARKETS ARE GIVEN IN TABLE 1).
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