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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1989
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HK'S EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR MARCH RELEASED
TO
TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN MARCH 1989, AT $91,530 MILLION, GREW BY 31 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS COMPARED WITH MARCH 1988, ACCORDING
1989 MARCH THE DETAILED FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN TODAY THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
RELEASED
DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 18 PER CENT TO $16,623 MILLION IN MILLION, 1989, WHILE RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 42 PER CENT TO $26,482
MILLION, WHICH BRINGING TOTAL EXPORTS IN MARCH 1989 TO $43,106 REPRESENTED AN INCREASE OF 32 PER CENT OVER MARCH 1988.
MARCH THUS
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, IMPORTS INCREASED BY 30 PER CENT TO $48,424 MILLION.
TOTAL
MERCHANDISE
TRADE
IN THE FIRST QUARTER $253,079 MILLION, INCREASED BY 29 PER CENT COMPARED QUARTER IN 1988.
OF WITH
1989, THE
AT SAME
OF VALUE
DOMESTIC RE-EXPORTS
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS INCREASED BY 9 PER CENT TO $47,927 MILLION, WHILE INCREASED BY 42 PER CENT TO $75,121 MILLION, THUS, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS
BY 27 INCREASED
PER CENT TO $123,049 INCREASED BY 32 PER CENT TO $130,031 MILLION.
MILLION.
COMPARING MARCH 1989 WITH MARCH 1988, SUBSTANTIAL RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN (+44 CHINA (+35 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (+29 PER CENT) AND KINGDOM (+27 PER CENT).
U.S.A.,
IMPORTS
GROWTH WAS PER CENT), THE UNITED
THE
LARGEST
THE VALUE THE
OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MARKET, AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE THIRD LARGEST MARKET, HOWEVER, THE FOLLOWING CHINA, ALSO INCREASED, BOTH BY 10 PER CENT. VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FRANCE DECREASED BY 1 PER CENT.
AND CENT)
IN (+54 PER SINGAPORE
IMPORTS FROM MOST MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS MARCH 1989 OVER MARCH 1988, PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM ITALY CENT), CHINA (+44 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+36 PER (+32 PER CENT). IMPORTS FROM JAPAN, THE U.S.A. AND THE KOREA ALSO INCREASED, BY 24 PER CENT, 22 PER CENT AND RESPECTIVELY.
GERMANY,
REPUBLIC OF 22 PER CENT
ITALY, THE
RE-EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF U.S.A. THE UNITED KINGDOM, JAPAN AND CHINA INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, BY 80 PER CENT, 70 PER
CENT CENT, 66
57 CENT, PER
PER CENT, 57 PER RESPECTIVELY.
AND 40
PER CENT
QUARTER
IN
COMPARING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989 WITH THE SAME 1988, DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MOST MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS.
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