THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1990
COMPARING THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989, INCREASES IN VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $180 MILLION OR 70 PER CENT); TEXTILES (BY $159 MILLION OR 7 PER CENT); ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND OR PLASTIC MATERIALS, AND CELLULOSE ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $92 MILLION 20 PER CENT); AND MISCELLANEOUS EDIBLE PRODUCTS AND PREPARATIONS (BY $15 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT).
MILLION AND
HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR CLOTHING (BY $381 OR 4 PER CENT); AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $369 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT).
TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
IN DOMESTIC
EXPORTS OF THE
THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.
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ARE
IN
MAJOR
(BY PER
COMPARING THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD 1989, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS WERE RECORDED IN MOST COMMODITY DIVISIONS. NOTABLE INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR CLOTHING (BY $997 MILLION OR 18 PER CENT); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES
$566
OR MILLION $923 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT); FOOTWEAR (BY CENT) AND TEXTILES (BY $310 MILLION OR 3 PER CENT).
HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $767 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT) AND NON-FERROUS METALS (BY $597 MILLION PER CENT).
OR 40
ILLUSTRATES THE
CHANGES IN
OF IMPORTS
THE MAJOR
TABLE 4 COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
THE CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR SHOWN IN TABLE 5.
MARKETS ARE
IN
COMPARING THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD
OF RE-EXPORTS WERE 1989, NOTABLE INCREASES IN THE VALUE
REGISTERED 39 PER FOR MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $1,668 MILLION OR
$659 CENT); CLOTHING (BY $1,290 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT); FOOTWEAR (BY MILLION OR 62 PER CENT) AND TEXTILES (BY $321 MILLION OR 6 PER CENT).
FOR
METALS NON-FERROUS
WASTES AND TEXTILE FIBRES AND THEIR
(BY (BY
HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED $474 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT) $467 MILLION OR 47 PER CENT).
TABLE 6 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
IN
RE-EXPORTS OF THE MAJOR
WITH
ON AVAILABLE
COUNTRY ISSUE OF IMPORTS, SALE FLOOR,
DETAILED STATISTICS ON TRADE VALUE BY COMMODITY AND BY ARE PUBLISHED IN TRADE STATISTICS REPORTS, THE FEBRUARY 1990 THE "HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE"
DETAILED ANALYSIS ON EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS IN FEBRUARY 1990 WILL AROUND APRIL 18, AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GROUND GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AT $27 PER COPY.
BE
/ENQUIRIES REGARDING