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DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING INCREASED BY $10 MILLION IN VALUE TERMS OR LESS THAN 0.5 PER CENT.
ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERK RECORDED IN MISCELLANKOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $242 MILLION OR I PER CENT); AND TEXTILES
(BY $192 MILLION OR 2 PER CENT).
TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISION.
THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.
COMPARING JANUARY TO JULY 1988 WITH THE SAME PERIOD TN 1987, MORE NOTABLE INCREASES IN IMPORTS IN VALUE TERMS WERE REGISTERED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $8,692 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT); ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, AND CELLULOSE ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $6,313 MILLION OR 111 PER CENT); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $4,170 MILLION ON 36 PER CENT); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $3,672 MILLION 142 33 PER CENT).
IMPORTS OF TEXTILES INCREASED BY $2,338 MILLION OR 7 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS. HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS (BY $294 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT); AND OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUIT (BY $80 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT),
TABLE 1 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS BY MAJOR COMMODITY
DIVISION.
THE CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARB SHOWN IN TABLE 5.
COMPARING JANUARY TO JULY 1988 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1987, MORE NOTABLE INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS IN VALUE TERMS WERE REGISTERED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $6,444 MILLION OR 78 PER CENT); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $1,923 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT): ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS AND CELLULOSE ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $3,763 MILLION OR 230 PER CENT); AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $3,262 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT).
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OR 17 PER IN OIL SEEDS AND PROCESSED OR VEORTABLE
RE-EXPORTS OF TEXTILES INCREASED BY $2,667 MILLION CENT IN VALUE TERMS. HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDEI) AND OLEAGINOUS FRUIT (BY $93 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT); ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS AND FATS, AND WAXES OF ANIMAL ORIGIN (BY $2 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT).
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