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TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1976

EXPORTS UP BY NEARLY $140 M LAST MONTH

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THE VALUE OF HONG KONG'S DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR JUNE WAS $2,831 MILLION, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF $139 MILLION OR 5.2 PER CENT, BY VALUE, COMPARED WITH MAY.

ACCORDING TO PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES RELEASED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS DROPPED BY $115 MILLION OR 3.1 PER CENT, WHILST RE-EXPORTS WENT DOWN BY $14 MILLION OR 1.9 PER CENT COMPARED WITH MAY.

HOWEVER, THE FIGURES FOR THE PERIOD APRIL TO JUNE 1976 SHOWED INCREASES, BY VALUE, OF 50.8 PER CENT FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS, 39.2 PER CENT FOR IMPORTS AND 29.8 PER CENT FOR RE-EXPORTS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1975.

THE FIGURES FOR THE 12-MONTH PERIOD FROM JULY 1975 TO JUNE 1976 COMPARED WITH THOSE OF THE PREVIOUS 12-MONTH PERIOD SHOWED INCREASES, BY VALUE, OF 31.1 PER CENT FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS, 26.2 PER CENT FOR IMPORTS AND 20.8 PER CENT FOR RE-EXPORTS.

THE FOLLOWING TRADE TABLE GIVES THE COMPARATIVE FIGURES :-

COMPARATIVE FIGURES

LATEST 3 MONTHS

APRIL-JUNE 1976

APRIL-JUNE 1975

INCREASE OR

DECREASE

$ MN.

$ MN.

$ MN.

%

DOMESTIC EXPORTS

7,957

5,275

+2,682 +50.8

IMPORTS

10,889

7,825

+3,065 +39.2

RE-EXPORTS

LATEST MONTH

2,147

1,655

492 +29.8

JUNE

1976

MAY 1976

INCREASE OR

DECREASE

$ MN.

$ MN.

$ MN.

%

DOMESTIC EXPORTS

2,831

(% OF TOTAL EXPORTS)

(79.3%)

IMPORTS

3,653

2,692 (78.2%)

3,768

139

+ 5.2

115

3.1

RE-EXPORTS

737

(% OF TOTAL EXPORTS)

(20.7%)

751 (21.8%)

14

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