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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1900
IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE DAILY DISCHARGE IS EQUIVALENT TO THAT FROM A HUMAN POPULATION OF 200 000.
FROM BEAS RIVER, SIR DAVID WENT TO SHEUNG SHUI AND VISITED MAN SHEK TONG, THE ANCESTRAL HALL (CHI-TONG) OF THE LIU CLAN WHICH WAS BUILT IN 1751 AND DECLARED AN HISTORICAL MONUMENT LAST YEAR.
BEFORE LEAVING THE AREA, SIR DAVID WENT TO PING CHE VILLAGE IN TA KWU LING AND WAS BRIEFED ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT.
MARCH EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS RELEASED
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THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (THURSDAY) RELEASED TRADE VALUE STATISTICS FOR MARCH 1986. TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JANUARY TO MARCH 1986, VALUED AT $108 823 MILLION, INCREASED MARGINALLY BY 0.3 PER CENT COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED 9Y 1 PER CENT TO $29 146 MILLION WHILE RE-EXPORTS DECREASED BY 6 PER CENT TO $24 005 MILLION, SO THAT FOR TOTAL EXPORTS, THE TRADE VALUE DECREASED BY 2 PER CENT. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT TO $55 672 MILLION.
ALL THE TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HEREIN ARE MEASURED AT
· CURRENT PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES BETWEEN THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON. A SEPARATE ANALYSIS ON THE PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE FOR MARCH 1986 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY JUNE.
THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE TEN MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
COMPARING THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF 1986 WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE U.S. INCREASED BY 2 PER CENT. ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $228 MILLION OR 4 PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF (BY $151 MILLION OR 8 PER CENT) AS WELL AS PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $63 MILLION OR 8 PER CENT).
ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $209 MILLION OR 15 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (BY $30 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT).
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