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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1980

RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1979 (HK$ MN)

1978 HK$ MN)

INCREASE (HK$ MN)

PERCENTAGE CHANGE

CHINA

5 663

3 659

+ 2 004

+ 55

JAPAN

3 393

2 243

+ 1 150

+ 51

USA

2 286

1 694

692

+ 43

TAIWAN

898

402

*

496

+123

SWITZERLAND AND

LIECHTENSTEIN

660

501

159

+ 32

OVERSEAS PURCHASES OF CHINESE PRODUCTS THROUGH HONG KONG REMAINED ACTIVE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS OF TEXTILE MADE-UP ARTICLES (BY $255 MILLION OR 54 PER CENT), UNDER-GARMENTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS (BY $100 MILLION OR 235 PER CENT). NON-TEXTILE CLOTHING (BY $84 MILLION OR 118 PER CENT), LADIES' AND INFANTS' OUTER GARMENTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS (BY $70 MILLION OR 135 PER CENT), AND WOVEN FABRICS AND MAN-MADE FIBRES (BY $65 MILLION OR 103 PER CENT).

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE ALSO RECORDED IN THE OVERSEAS DEMAND FOR JAPANESE WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $202 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTO- CELLS, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS THEREOF (BY $65 MILLION OR 81 PER CENT), RADIO BROADCAST RECEIVERS (BY $56 MILLION OR 121 PER CENT), AND MISCELLANEOUS TEXTILE AND LEATHER MACHINERY (BY $51 MILLION OR 40 PER CENT).

INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS OF US ORIGIN WERE NOTED IN THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS THEREOF (BY $111 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT) PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $103 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT) AS WELL AS PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES (BY $37 MILLION OR 77 PER CENT).

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A SIZEABLE PORTION OF THE INCREASE IN RE-EXPORTS ORIGINATED FROM TAIWAN CONSTITUTED TEXTILE YARN (BY $123 MILLION OR 315 PER CENT) WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (BY $50 MILLION OR 84 PER CENT) AND MISCELLANEOUS TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT AND PARTS (BY $36 MILLION OR 139 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS OF SWISS ORIGIN ALSO SHOWED SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH, PARTICULARLY FOR WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $79 MILLION OR 44 PER CENT).

WHEN ANALYSED BY COUNTRY OF DESTINATION, THERE WERE INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS OF CHINA ORIGIN TO USA (BY $362 MILLION OR 97 PER CENT), INDONESIA (BY $241 MILLION OR 55 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (BY $159 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT) AND NIGERIA (BY $112 MILLION OR 91 PER CENT). INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS OF JAPAN ORIGIN WERE MAINLY TO CHINA (BY $323 MILLION OR 815 PER CENT), TAIWAN (BY $150 MILLION OR 73 PER CENT) AND WEST GERMANY (BY $56 MILLION OR 107 PER CENT), INCREASES WERE ALSO NOTED IN RE-EXPORTS OF US ORIGIN TO CHINA (BY $99 MILLION OR 309 PER CENT).

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