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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1976

PROVISIONAL TRADE FIGURES FOR NOVEMBER 1976 ******

THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY PUBLISHED THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES FOR HONG KONG'S EXTERNAL MERCHANDISE TRADE DURING NOVEMBER 1976. THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR NOVEMBER WAS $2,791 MILLION, IMPORTS WERE WORTH $3,702 MILLION AND RE-EXPORTS $817 MILLION.

THE FIGURES FOR THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1976 (LATEST THREE MONTHS) SHOWED INCREASES, BY VALUE, COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1975 OF 32.2 PER CENT FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS, 20.4 PER CENT FOR IMPORTS AND 28.1 PER CENT FOR RE-EXPORTS.

COMPARED WITH THE SAME MONTH IN 1975, INCREASES, BY VALUE, OF $536 MILLION OR 23.8 PER CENT IN EXPORTS, 3602 MILLION OR 19.4 PER CENT IN IMPORTS AND $162 MILLION OR 24.6 PER CENT IN RE-EXPORTS WERE RECORDED.

THE SHORT TERM CHANGES, NOVEMBER 1976 COMPARED WITH OCTOBER 1976, SHOWED DECREASES OF $132 MILLION OR 4.5 PER CENT FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND $245 MILLION OR 6.2 PER CENT FOR IMPORTS. THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY $10 MILLION OR 1.2 PER CENT.

THE FIGURES FOR THE 12-MONTH PERIOD FROM DECEMBER 1975 TO NOVEMBER 1976 COMPARED WITH THOSE OF THE PREVIOUS 12-MONTH PERIOD SHOWED INCREASES, BY VALUE, OF 42.7 PER CENT FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS, 31 PER CENT FOR IMPORTS AND 27.2 PER CENT FOR RE-EXPORTS.

THE FOLLOWING TRADE TABLE GIVES THE COMPARATIVE FIGURES :-

LATEST 3 MONTHS

DOMESTIC EXPORTS

IMPORTS

SEP. - NOV. SEP.

1976

-

NOV. 1975

INCREASE OR

DECREASE

$$3

MN.

B MN.

$ MN. %

8,776

6,636

+2,140

+32.2

11,407

9,476

+1,931

+20.4

/RE-EXPORTS