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Comparing the first ten months of 1996 with the same period in 1995, more notable increases in the value of imports were registered for office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $10.4 billion or 19%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $7.1 billion or 4.6%); clothing (by $6.2 billion or 7.6%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $3.8 billion or 4.3%); and footwear (by $3.4 billion or 7.9%).
Over the same period, decreases in the value of imports were recorded for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $4.7 billion or 3.9%); textiles (by $2.5 billion or 2.3%); and non-metallic mineral manufactures (by $1.2 billion or 3.2%).
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 October 1996 will be released in early January 1997.
Detailed trade statistics analysed by commodity and by country/territory are published in trade statistics reports.
The October 1996 issue of the "Hong Kong External Trade" with detailed analyses on the performance of Hong Kong's external trade in October 1996 will be on sale at $129 per copy around December 21, 1996.
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.
Enquiries regarding regular subscription to this report may be directed to the Publications (Sales) Office, 28th floor, Siu On Centre, 188 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong (Tel. No. 2598 8194) and enquiries on trade statistics to the Census and Statistics Department (Tel. No. 2582 4915).