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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1992
RE-EXPORTS
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF END-USE CATEGORY FOR FEBRUARY 1992 AS COMPARED WITH FEBRUARY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.
BY
1991
COMPARING FEBRUARY 1992 WITH FEBRUARY 1991, THE VOLUME OF EXPORTS OF ALL END-USE CATEGORIES INCREASED RAW MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURES (+80%); FUELS (+67%); FOODSTUFFS (+59%); GOODS (+54%); AND CONSUMER GOODS (+43%).
RE-
SEMI-
CAPITAL
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS OF AND CONSUMER GOODS, FOODSTUFFS AND CAPITAL GOODS INCREASED BY 3%, 2% 1% RESPECTIVELY.
THE
PRICES RE-EXPORT
OF FUELS AND RAW MANUFACTURES DECREASED BY 29% AND 1% RESPECTIVELY.
AND MATERIAL
SEMI-
STARTING
STANDARD ADOPTED IN
FROM JANUARY THIS YEAR, THE THIRD REVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL
HAS TRADE CLASSIFICATION (SITC REV. 3) IN HONG KONG
PLACE OF THE SECOND REVISION CLASSIFICATION OF TRADE STATISTICS BY COMMODITY.
BEEN
FOR
THE
TO ACHIEVE COMPARABILITY WITH THE TRADE FIGURES IN
TRADE STATISTICS CORRESPONDING COMMODITY
IN 1991 HAVE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THE NEW SYSTEM.
1992,
THE BEEN RE-
DETAILS ARE PUBLISHED IN THE FEBRUARY 1992 ISSUE OF THE KONG TRADE INDEX NUMBERS"
"HONG
COPY AT
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TABLE 1: CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP
COMPARING FEB 1992
WITH FEB 1991
COMPARING JAN-FEB 1992 WITH JAN-FEB 1991
COMMODITY GROUP
VALUE
UNIT VALUE
VOLUME
VALUE
UNIT VALUE
VOLUME
%%
%%
%
%
%%%
CLOTHING
19
2
17
-2
3
-
TEXTILE FABRICS
39
1
37
-15
2
-17
TEXTILE YARN AND
27
-2
29
-14
- 14
THREAD
/TEXTILE MADE-UPS