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THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 5.
COMPARING DECEMBER 1990 WITH DECEMBER 1989, THE VALUE OF RE- EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM RECORDED SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES OF 113 PER CENT, 41 PER CENT AND 40 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. THOSE TO JAPAN, TAIWAN, CHINA, THE USA AND CANADA INCREASED BY 22 PER CENT, 18 PER CENT, 18 PER CENT, 16 PER CENT AND 11 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA DECREASED BY 10 PER CENT AND 4 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
COMPARING THE YEAR 1990 WITH THE YEAR 1989, THE VALUE
OF RF- EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, FRANCE, THE UNITED KINGDOM, TAIWAN, THE USA AND CANADA INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY, BY 73 PER CENT, 41 PER CENT, 36 PER CENT, 29 PER CENT, 22 PER CENT AND 21 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
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THOSE TO SINGAPORE, JAPAN AND CHINA INCREASED BY 14 PER 9 PER CENT AND 7 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, WHILE THOSE TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA DECREASED BY 2 PER CENT.
TABLE 6 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS OF THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
COMPARING THE YEAR 1990 WITH THE YEAR 1989, CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $13,826 MILLION OR 33 PER CENT); CLOTHING (BY $10,540 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $8,813 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT); AND FOOTWEAR (BY $5,969 MILLION OR 76 PER CENT). THOSE OF TEXTILES INCREASED BY $4,614 MILLION OR 11 PER CENT.
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HOWEVER, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WERE RECORDED TEXTILE FIBRES AND THEIR WASTES (BY $1,962 MILLION OR 40 PER CENT) AND MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $708 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT).
ALL THE TRADE STATISTICS DESCRIBED HERE ARE MEASURED AT CURRENT PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES BETWEEN THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON.
A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF THE PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN DECEMBER 1990 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY MARCH 1991.
COUNTRY ISSUE OF IMPORTS,
DETAILED STATISTICS ON TRADE VALUE BY COMMODITY AND BY ARE PUBLISHED IN TRADE STATISTICS REPORTS. THE DECEMBER 1990 THE "HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE" WITH DETAILED ANALYSES ON EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS IN DECEMBER 1990 AS WELL AS THE WHOLE YEAR OF 1990 WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AROUND FEBRUARY 20, AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GROUND FLOOR, GPO BUILDING, PLACE, CENTRAL AT $27 PER COPY.
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