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HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $107 MILLION OR 48 PER CENT); CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $95 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT) AND ESSENTIAL OILS AND PERFUME MATERIALS, TOILET, POLISHING AND CLEANSING
AIRBORNE PREPARATIONS (BY $29 MILLION OR 6 PER CENT). THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 6.
$412
RE-EXPORTS
ΤΟ THE USA
MILLION
OR
OF
(BY
66
ANALYSED BY COUNTRY WITHIN COMMODITY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS OF CLOTHING $1,333 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT) AND TO JAPAN (BY PER CENT); NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES ΤΟ THAILAND (BY $599
OR MILLION MILLION OR 177 PER CENT) AND TO THE USA (BY $486 CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND $653 MILLION OR GOODS, AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO JAPAN (BY CENT); AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF TO TAIWAN (BY $753 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT).
HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE
RECORDED IN
38 PER OPTICAL
78 PER
METALLIFEROUS ORES AND OR 83 METAL SCRAP TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $74 MILLION
PER CENT); PER CENT) AND TO THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $56 MILLION OR 57
OR 41 CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS TO TAIWAN (BY $80 MILLION
POLISHING PER CENT) AND ESSENTIAL OILS AND PERFUME MATERIALS; TOILET, AND CLEANSING PREPARATIONS TO TAIWAN (BY $92 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT).
FURTHER DETAILS ARE PUBLISHED IN THE "HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE, DECEMBER 1989" NOW AVAILABLE AT GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, CENTRAL AT $17.50 PER GROUND FLOOR, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, COPY.
ENQUIRIES MAY BE DIRECTED ΤΟ THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ON TEL. 823 4915.
TABLE 1: AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR MARKETS
JAN-DEC
1989
MAJOR MARKET
(HKD MN.)
JAN-DEC
1988 (HKD MN.)
INCREASE
(HKD MN.}
PERCENTAGE INCREASE
(%)
USA
27,417
27,242
174
+ 1
JAPAN
7.351
6,281
+1,070
+17
F.R. OF GERMANY
5,976
5,427
+
548
+10
UK
3,779
3,794
15
SINGAPORE
2,818
2,510
308
+12
CANADA
2,045
1,818
+
226
+12
TAIWAN
1,896
1,320
+
575
+44
SWITZERLAND
1,652
1.581
70
+ 4
/NETHERLANDS