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November external trade statistics by country and commodity
The Census and Statistics Department today (Friday) released detailed statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity for November 1995.
The value of re-exports continued to increase, by 8.1% over a year earlier to $93.8 billion in November 1995.
Comparing November 1995 with November 1994, the value of re-exports to most of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: the Netherlands (+34%), the United Kingdom (+25%), France (+24%), Japan (+22%), South Korea (+14%), Singapore (+11%), China (+9.3%), Taiwan (+8.5%) and Germany (+8.3%).
2.4%.
However, the value of re-exports to the United States decreased slightly, by
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 eleven months of 1995 was $1,017.3 billion, 17% higher than that in the same period in 1994.
Comparing the first 11 months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of re-exports to all main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+29%), France (+28%), Japan (+27%), Taiwan (+25%), the Netherlands (+24%), China (+18%), the United Kingdom (+18%), South Korea (+16%), the United States (+11%) and Germany (+9.7%).
Table 2 shows changes in the value of re-exports of 10 principal commodity
divisions.
Comparing the first 11 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.