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External trade statistics classified by
country and commodity for February 1995
Detailed statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity for February 1995 released by the Census and Statistics Department today (Wednesday) showed that the value of re-exports continued to increase substantially, by 18% over a year earlier to $70.0 billion in February 1995.
Comparing February 1995 with February 1994, increases were recorded in the value of re-exports to China (+38%), Singapore (+30%), South Korea (+21%), Taiwan (+19%), Canada (+16%), Japan (+14%), the United States (+9.8%) and the Netherlands (+2.9%).
However, the value of re-exports to the United Kingdom and Germany decreased by 12% each.
Changes in the value of Hong Kong's re-exports to 10 main destinations are shown in Table 1.
The value of re-exports in the first two months of 1995 was $153.2 billion, 21% higher than that in the same period in 1994.
Comparing the first two months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of re-exports to most main destinations showed increases of var ous magnitudes: Singapore (+30%), Canada (+28%), Taiwan (+28%), China (+26%), South Korea (+25%), Japan (+25%), the United States (+20%), the Netherlands (+19%) and the United Kingdom (+2.0%).
0.9%.
However, the value of re-exports to Germany decreased marginally by
Table 2 shows changes in the value of re-exports of 10 principal commodity divisions.