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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1979

ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES (MAINLY TRANSISTORS AND DIODES AND HOUSEHOLD

TYPE APPLIANCES)

1,744 2,109

+365

+21

APPAREL AND CLOTHING ACCESSORIES CONTINUED TO SHOW THE HIGHEST INCREASE IN VALUE TERMS ($15,709 MILLION, +13 PER CENT). OTHER EXPORT ITEMS WHICH ALSO REGISTERED SIGNIFICANT GROWTH WERE TEXTILE PRODUCTS ($2,869 MILLION, SIX PER CENT), ELECTRICAL MACHINERY ($2,109 MILLION, +21 PER CENT) AND TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS ($913 MILLION, +28 PER CENT).

BUT SLIGHT DECLINES WERE RECORDED IN DELIVERIES OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS AND PARTS FOR COMPUTERS ($678 MILLION, ONE PER CENT)

AND ALSO PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CONTROLLING APPARATUS ($120 MILLION, -32 PER CENT).

THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM 10 MAJOR SOURCES ARE:

1977

1978 (HK$ MN) (HK$ MN) (HK$ MN)

INCREASE

(HK% MN)

PERCENTAGE CHANGE

JAPAN

11,547 14,405

+2,857

+25

CHINA

8,082 10,550

+2,468

+31

U.S.A.

6,093

7,519

+1,426

+23

TAIWAN

3,254

4,257

+1,004

+31

SINGAPORE

2,888 3,219

331

+11

UNITED KINGDOM 2,192

2,975

783

+36

SWITZERLAND

AND

LIECHTENSTEIN 1,292

2,115

823

+64

F.R. OF

GERMANY

1,463

2,072

+

610

+42

REPUBLIC OF

KOREA

1,682

1,793

110

+7

AUSTRALIA

956

1,274

317

+33

IMPORTS FROM JAPAN ROSE BY 25 PER CENT, DUE MAINLY TO INCREASED SHIPMENTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS ($1,900 MILLION, +22 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS ($1,303 MILLION +34 PER CENT, ELECTRICAL MACHINERY ($1,263 MILLION, +44 PER CENT), AND ROAD VEHICLES ($881 MILLION, +62 PER CENT).

/INCREASED IMPORTS