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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1989
HOWEVER, THOSE TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE DECREASED BY 4 PER CENT AND 2 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
JANUARY IN
TO MAY 1989 FROM ALL
SAME TERMS COMPARED WITH THE
USA
SUPPLIERS
IN 1988. (+42 PER
IMPORTS
MAJOR
INCREASED IN VALUE
PERIOD
SIGNIFICANT
WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM ITALY INCREASES CENT), SINGAPORE (+38 PER CENT), CHINA (+34 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+30 PER CENT), CENT),
THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+23 PER CENT), THE USA (+22 PER
GERMANY (+19 PER JAPAN
PER CENT) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF (+21 CENT).
FEDERAL THE USA, BY 63 PER CENT
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, ITALY, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN AND CHINA INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS, CENT, 62 PER CENT, 51 PER CENT, 50 PER CENT, 43 PER CENT, 42 PER AND 40 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
AT CURRENT ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE ARE MEASURED
BETWEEN PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES
THE PRICE THE
AND A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF PERIODS OF COMPARISON.
RELEASED IN VOLUME
OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN MAY 1989 WILL BE MOVEMENTS EARLY AUGUST 1989.
THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
IN
1988,
OFFICE
COMPARING JANUARY TO MAY 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD
IN NOTABLE INCREASES
FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $865 MILLION OR CELLULOSE 18
PER CENT): ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, AND
AND ELECTRICAL ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $585 MILLION OR 71 PER CENT); MACHINERY,
APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF $529 MILLION OR 8 PER CENT).
(BY
DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING INCREASED BY $1,304 MILLION OR
6
PER CENT.
HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR FOOTWEAR (BY $95 15
MANUFACTURED ARTICLES OR
PER CENT) AND MISCELLANEOUS MILLION OR 1 PER CENT).
MILLION (BY $89
TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS COMMODITY DIVISION.
BY MAJOR
THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.
ARE
COMPARING
JANUARY
1988,
TO MAY 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS WERE RECORDED IN ALL MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
IN
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