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THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1979

HK'S RE-EXPORT TRADE FOR JANUARY-JUNE 1979

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THE RE-EXPORT TRADE OF HONG KONG SHOWED EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, ACCORDING TO A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET AND BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN RELEASED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (THURSDAY).

THE FOLLOWING TABLE SHOWS THE CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS TO FIVE MAJOR MARKETS:

JAN.-JUNE 79 JAN.-JUNE 78

INCREASE

PERCENTAGE

(HK$ MN.)

(HK$ MN.)

(HK$ MN.)

CHANGE

JAPAN

1 379

996

+ 383

+ 38

U.S.A.

914

549

+ 365

+ 66

TAIWAN

864

545

+ 319

+ 59

SINGAPORE

809

640

+ 169

+ 26

INDONESIA

760

619

+ 141

+ 23

JAPAN REMAINED THE LARGEST MARKET FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS WITH SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS ($121 MILLION, +90 PER CENT), WOVEN COTTON FABRICS ($114 MILLION, +90 PER CENT), TEXTILE YARN ($76 MILLION, +210 PER CENT), AND THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES ($50 MILLION, +177 PER CENT).

INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S. WERE IN PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES ($241 MILLION, +34 PER CENT) WATCHES AND CLOCKS ($97 MILLION, +36 PER CENT), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES ($78 MILLION, +67 PER CENT) AND EXPLOSIVES AND PYROTECHNIC PRODUCTS ($61 MILLION, +66 PER CENT).

REMARKABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN OF THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES ($123 MILLION, +100 PER CENT), SILVER PLATINUM AND OTHER METALS OF THE PLATINUM GROUP ($32 MILLION, +2 229 PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT AND PARTS ($30 MILLION, +320 PER CENT), AND WOVEN FABRICS

OF MAN-MADE FIBRES ($27 MILLION, +129 PER CENT).

RISES IN RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE CONSISTED MAINLY OF TEXTILE YARN, FABRICS, MADE-UP ARTICLES, AND RELATED PRODUCTS ($101 MILLION, +84 PER CENT), PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES ($94 MILLION, +75 PER CENT), CRUDE VEGETABLE MATERIALS ($40 MILLION, +35 PER CENT), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES ($30 MILLION, +101 PER CENT) AND VEGETABLES ($24 MILLION, +37 PER CENT).

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