MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1994
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN JULY 1994, AT $109.3 BILLION, INCREASED BY 11% OVER A YEAR EARLIER.
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAIN ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 5.
SUPPLIERS
COMPARING
FROM
JULY 1994 WITH JULY 1993, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS
INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDES: ALL OF THE MAIN SUPPLIERS SHOWED
ITALY (+18%), THE SINGAPORE (+41%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+21%),
(+3.8%), UNITED STATES (+15%), MALAYSIA (+14%), CHINA (+11%), TAIWAN JAPAN (+3.3%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+2.2%) AND GERMANY (+0.8%).
PERIOD SUPPLIERS SHOWED (+28%), ITALY (+28%),
CHINA (+15%), THE UNITED STATES (+8.6%),
COMPARING THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME IN ·1993, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL OF THE MAIN INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDES: SINGAPORE MALAYSIA (+24%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+17%), UNITED KINGDOM (+14%), TAIWAN (+9.8%), THE GERMANY (+5.7%) AND JAPAN (+3.2%).
OF 1994, AT THIS
THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS $682.7 BILLION, INCREASED BY 13% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993. WAS SUPPORTED LARGELY BY THE GROWTH IN HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORT TRADE.
TABLE 6 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS OF PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
THE 10
PERIOD COMPARING THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME
IMPORTS OF MOST 1993, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
IN
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
$15.8
AND
NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY BILLION OR 33%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES,
$9.6 ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $10.2 BILLION OR 16%); TEXTILES (BY
AUTOMATIC
PROCESSING BILLION
DATA OR
MACHINES AND OFFICE 17%);
OR 15%); MACHINES (BY $4.8 BILLION OR 24%); FOOTWEAR (BY $3.6 BILLION
MAINLY OF BABY AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $3.4 BILLION OR 7.7%).
VALUE OF
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN THE IMPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (BY $5.9 BILLION OR 17%).
ALL THE TRADE STATISTICS DESCRIBED HERE ARE MEASURED AT CURRENT BETWEEN PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON.
A
SEPARATE ANALYSIS
OF THE VOLUME
MOVEMENTS
OF
PRICE AND EXTERNAL TRADE FOR JULY 1994 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY OCTOBER.
DETAILED TRADE STATISTICS ANALYSED BY COMMODITY AND BY COUNTRY/ TERRITORY ARE PUBLISHED IN TRADE STATISTICS REPORTS.
IN
EXTERNAL TRADE" WITH THE JULY 1994 ISSUE OF THE "HONG KONG DETAILED ANALYSES OF THE PERFORMANCE OF HONG KONG'S EXTERNAL TRADE JULY WILL BE ON SALE AT $86 A COPY AROUND SEPTEMBER 22.
/THE REPORT