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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Thursday, July 27, 1972

JUNE EXPORT FIGURES SHOW HEALTHY INCREASE

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$1,324 million

Hong Kong's domestic exports for the month of June were valued at

an increase of 10.8 per cent or $129 million over June 1971.

Provisional figures released today by the Census and Statistics

Department also showed that imports, worth $1,926 million, increased by 6.9 per cent or $125 million, while re-exports rose by 21.3 per cent or $62 million

to $355 million, compared with the same month last year.

A spokesman for the Commerce and Industry Department said that during

the three-month period, April to June, domestic exports totalled $3,676 million,

imports $5,534 million, and re-exports #945 million.

Compared with the same period in 1971, these figures represent increases

of 6.2 per cent, 3.6 per cent and 10.5 per cent.

However, taken over the six-month period from January to June the

figures are more impressive with increases over the corresponding period in 1971 of 9.7 per cent for domestic exports, 2.4 per cent for imports and 14.7

per cent for re-exports.

The provisional figures released by the Census and Statistics Department

are as follows:-

MERCHANDISE:

Domestic Exports:

Imports

$1,324 million

$1,926 million

Re-exports

: $ 355 million

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Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191