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External trade statistics for September
The Census and Statistics Department today (Monday) released detailed statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity for September 1995.
The value of re-exports continued to increase notably, by 20% over a year earlier to $105.5 billion in September 1995.
Comparing September 1995 with September 1994, the value of re-exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+48%), Japan (+37%), South Korea (+31%), Singapore (+30%), Taiwan (+29%), the United Kingdom (+27%), Germany (+19%), Canada (+16%), China (+14%) and the United States (+14%).
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 nine months of 1995 was $821.4 billion, 19% higher than that in the same period in 1994.
Comparing the first nine months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of re-exports to all main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+34%), Japan (+30%), France (+28%), Taiwan (+27%), China (+20%), Canada (+19%), South Korea (+17%), the United Kingdom (+17%), the United States (+14%) and Germany (+9.5%).
Table 2 shows changes in the value of re-exports of 10 principal commodity divisions.
Comparing the first nine months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, increases of various magnitudes were recorded in the value of re-exports of most principal commodity divisions. More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $25.8 billion or 44%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $18.6 billion or 27%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $15.7 billion or 18%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $15.6 billion or 61%); textiles (by $10.1 billion or 17%); and plastics in primary forms (by $7.4 billion or 50%).
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