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External trade statistics by country and commodity
The Census and Statistics Department today (Tuesday) released detailed statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity for October 1995.
The value of re-exports continued to show a notable increase, by 12% over a year earlier to $102.1 billion in October 1995.
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Comparing October 1995 with October 1994, the value of re-exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: France (+39%), United Kingdom (+25%), Taiwan (+25%), Japan (+17%), China (+16%), Germany (+13%), South Korea (+12%), Singapore (+10%), Canada (+0.7%) and the United States (+0.3%).
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 ten months of 1995 was $923.5 billion, 19% higher than that in the same period in 1994.
Comparing the first 10 months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of re-exports to all main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes : Singapore (+31%), France (+29%), Japan ( +28%), Taiwan (+27%). China (+19%), the United Kingdom (+18%), South Korea (+17%), Canada (+16%), the United States (+12%) and Germany (+9.9%).
Table 2 shows changes in the value of re-exports of 10 principal commodity
divisions.
Comparing the first 10 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 $27.6 billion or 41%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $19.1 billion or 24%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $17.2 billion or 17%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $17.1 billion or 59%); textiles (by $10.8 billion or 16%); and plastics in primary forms (by $8.3 billion or 49%).