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External trade statistics for October 1994 released
The Census and Statistics Department today (Friday) released detailed statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity for October this
year.
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The value of re-exports continued to show a marked increase, by 19% over a earlier to $91.3 billion in October 1994.
Comparing October 1994 with October 1993, increases were recorded in the value of re- exports to Singapore (+36%), Canada (+27%), Japan (+24%), the United States (+22%), China (+22%), France (+18%), Taiwan (+8.5%), the United Kingdom (+7.3%) and the Republic of Korea (+0.9%).
However, the value of re-exports to Germany decreased slightly by 1.5%.
The changes in the value of Hong Kong's re- exports to the 10 main destinations are shown in Table 1.
The value of re-exports in the first 10 months of 1994 was $779.1 billion, 15% higher than that in the same period in 1993.
Comparing the first 10 months of 1994 with the same period in 1993, increases were recorded in the value of re-exports to Japan (+24%), China (+18%), the United States (+17%), Singapore (+16%), the United Kingdom (+12%), Canada (+10%), the Republic of Korea (+7.8%), France (+5.1%) and Germany (+3.7%).
However, the value of re-exports to Taiwan decreased marginally by 0.2%.
Table 2 shows the changes in the value of re- exports of the 10 principal commodity divisions.
Comparing the first 10 months of 1994 with the same period in 1993, increases of various magnitudes were recorded in the value of re- exports of most principal commodity divisions.