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CONSIDERABLE DECREASES IN THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR RADIOS OF ALL KINDS (-62%) AND FOOTWEAR (-30%).
COMMODITY GROUPS WHICH RECORDED INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES INCLUDED DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (+5.2%) AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS (+4.9%).
ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORT PRICES WERE RECORDED FOR FOOTWEAR (-6.9%) AND METAL ORES AND SCRAP (-4.1%).
THE
CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF IMPORTS END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.
BY
THE IMPORT VOLUME OF FOODSTUFFS INCREASED BY 20% IN MAY 1994 AS COMPARED WITH MAY 1993.
SIGNIFICANT INCREASES
WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORT VOLUME OF SOYA BEAN OIL,
AND PEANUT OIL, VEGETABLE OIL AND LARD; MEAT
MEAT PREPARATION; RICE; AND MILK, BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS. HOWEVER, AND DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORT VOLUME OF WHEAT AND FLOUR; SUGAR.
THE OVER
SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE IMPORT VOLUME OF CONSUMER GOODS INCREASED BY 8.8%.
COMMODITY ITEMS WITH CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN IMPORT VOLUME INCLUDED TOBACCO MANUFACTURES; AND RADIOS, TELEVISION SETS, GRAMOPHONES, RECORDS, TAPE RECORDERS AND AMPLIFIERS. A MARKED DECREASE IN IMPORT VOLUME WAS NOTED OF PASSENGER MOTOR CARS.
THE IMPORT VOLUME OF RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES INCREASED BY 22% IN MAY 1994 AS COMPARED WITH MAY 1993.
INCREASES IN IMPORT VOLUME WERE NOTED OF SIGNIFICANT
MAN-MADE DECREASE FIBRES; COTTON YARN AND THREAD; AND RAW COTTON. CONSIDERABLE
THE IMPORT VOLUME OF WAS RECORDED IN
WATCH AND CLOCK MOVEMENTS,
CASES AND PARTS.
IMPORTS
OF
FUELS INCREASED MARKEDLY BY 78% IN VOLUME 1994 AS COMPARED WITH MAY 1993.
IN
MAY
AS
REGARDS CAPITAL GOODS, THE IMPORT VOLUME INCREASED BY IN MAY 1994 OVER MAY 1993.
5.5%
A NOTABLE INCREASE WAS RECORDED IN THE IMPORT VOLUME OF MACHINERY AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. HOWEVER, THE IMPORT CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY AND TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT DECLINED.
OFFICE VOLUME OF
MOST
OF 1994 WITH MAY 1993, THE IMPORT PRICES COMPARING MAY END-USE CATEGORIES INCREASED: RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES (+2.9%), FOODSTUFFS (+1.7%), CONSUMER GOODS (+1.3%) AND CAPITAL (+1.0%). THE IMPORT PRICES OF FUELS, HOWEVER, DECREASED BY 17%.
GOODS
DETAILS OF THE ABOVE STATISTICS ARE PUBLISHED IN THE MAY ISSUE OF THE "HONG KONG TRADE INDEX NUMBERS".
1994
/THE REPORT