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The value of imports in the first seven months of 1995, at $845.2 billion, increased markedly, by 24% over the same period in 1994.
Table 6 shows changes in the value of imports of ten principal commodity
divisions.
Comparing the first seven months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, increases were recorded in the value of imports of most principal commodity divisions.
More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $28.5 billion or 39%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $16.1 billion or 25%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $12.5 billion or 50%); textiles (by $11.1 billion or 16%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $9.8 billion or 21%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $6.4 billion or 22%); and general industrial machinery and equipment, and machine parts (by $3.7 billion or 16%).
Over the same period, a small decrease in the value of imports was recorded for road vehicles (by $811 million or 2.9%).
All the trade statistics described here are measured at current prices and no account has been taken of changes in prices between the periods of comparison.
A separate analysis of the volume and price movements of external trade for July 1995 will be released in early October.
Detailed trade statistics analysed by commodity and by country/territory are published in trade statistics reports.
The July issue of the "Hong Kong External Trade" with detailed analyses on the performance of Hong Kong's external trade in July 1995 will be on sale at $122 per copy at around September 20.
The report can be purchased at either (i) the Government Publications Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, or (ii) the Publications Unit of the Census and Statistics Department, 19th Floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
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