THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1989
DOMESTIC EXPORTS THE MARKETS WITH MORE SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN
CENTI AND SINGAPORE INCLUDED JAPAN (+36 PER CENT), CHINA (+35 PER
EXPORTS WERE ALSO (+21 PER CENT). INCREASES IN VALUE OF DOMESTIC RECORDED IN AUSTRALIA (+15 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (+14 PER AND THE UNITED KINGDOM +13 PER CENT).
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HOWEVER, THOSE TO FRANCE, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
CENT AND 2 THE U.S.A. DECREASED BY 7 PER CENT, 4 PER RESPECTIVELY.
AND PER CENT
SUPPLIERS
IN 1988. (+45 PER
IMPORTS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989 FROM ALL MAJOR QUARTER INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS COMPARED WITH THE SAME SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM ITALY CENT), SINGAPORE (+39 PER CENT), CHINA (+38 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+35 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (+30 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+28 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (+27 PER CENT).
ITALY, THE OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO
AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE UNITED KINGDOM, CHINA AND THE U.S.A. INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS, PER CENT, 67 PER CENT, 56 PER CENT, 53 PER CENT, 51 PER CENT, 50 CENT AND 42 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
BY 74 PER
AT CURRENT ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE ARE MEASURED
BETWEEN PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES
THE PRICE AND THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON. A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF
IN VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN MARCH 1989 WILL BE RELEASED EARLY JUNE 1989.
THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR
COMPARING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989 WITH THE SAME 1988,
INCREASES IN VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
QUARTER IN RECORDED IN ALL
DATA
THE MORE NOTABLE ONES WERE OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC
CENT); ELECTRICAL PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $645 MILLION OR 24 PER
(BY MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF
APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT $575 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT); AND PHOTOGRAPHIC
AND CLOCKS (BY $332 AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND WATCHES
BY MILLION OR 8 PER CENT). DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING INCREASED $600 MILLION OR 4 PER CENT.
HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN FOOTWEAR (BY $46 MILLION OR OR 13 PER CENT) AND TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $34 MILLION 7 PER CENT).
TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS COMMODITY DIVISION.
BY MAJOR
THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG'S 10 SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.
MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE
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