RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1990
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO 10 MAJOR MARKETS GIVEN IN TABLE 1.
ARE
KONG'S OF
CHINA AND THE U.S.A., THE TWO LARGEST MARKETS FOR HONG RE-EXPORTS, ACCOUNTED FOR 27 PER CENT AND 21 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY THE TOTAL VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1990.
THE SHARES OF JAPAN, TAIWAN AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY WERE 6 PER CENT, 6 PER CENT AND 5 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
1989,
COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD OF THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA DECREASED BY 4 PER CENT WHILE MOST OF THE OTHER MAJOR MARKETS REGISTERED INCREASES.
THE FEDERAL CANADA (28 SINGAPORE
THE MORE SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (51 PER CENT), FRANCE (32 PER CENT), PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (28 PER CENT), TAIWAN (24 PER CENT), (24 PER CENT) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (20 PER CENT). EXPORTS TO JAPAN INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT WHEREAS THAT TO THE OF KOREA DECREASED BY 4 PER CENT.
THE VALUE OF RE- REPUBLIC
DECREASED COMPARED
MARKET,
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THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA, THE LARGEST MARKET, BY $2,344 MILLION OR 4 PER CENT IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1990 AS WITH THE FIRST HALF OF 1989. ANALYSED BY COMMODITY FOR THIS SIGNIFICANT DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1,220 MILLION OR
INDUSTRIES (BY PER CENT): AND MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR $1,182 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT). HOWEVER, INCREASES WERE RECORDED
PETROLEUM CENT); PETROLEUM, TEXTILES (BY $1.555 MILLION OR 14 PER
AND PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (BY $383 MILLION OR 38 PER CENT);
OF PAPER OR OF OF PAPER ARTICLES PAPERBOARD, PAPER, PAPERBOARD (BY $305 MILLION OR 37 PER CENT).
AND
PULP,
IN
THE SECOND LARGEST THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S.A.,
28
MARKET
VALUE FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS, INCREASED BY $8,242 MILLION OR PER CENT. COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RE-EXPORT
ARTICLES, INCLUDING TO THIS MARKET WERE MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED MAINLY
(BY $2,277
CENT);
DECREASES
OR
48
PER
BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS MILLION OR 32 PER CENT); FOOTWEAR (BY $1,730 MILLION OR 81 PER AND CLOTHING (BY $1,508 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT). HOWEVER, WERE RECORDED IN VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (BY $201 MILLION CENT); AND NON-FERROUS METALS (BY $80 MILLION OR 53 PER CENT).
THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN INCREASED BY $288 MILLION OR 3 PER CENT. ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN VALUB WERE RECORDED IN NON-METALLIC MINERAL MILLION OR 61 PER CENT); AND MISCELLANEOUS INCLUDING MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING $340 MILLION OR 41 PER CENT). $292 MILLION OR 37 PER CENT).
MANUFACTURES MANUFACTURED
RE-EXPORT (BY $417 ARTICLES, GOODS (BY
A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN TEXTILES
(BY
/THE VALUE