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ELECTRICAL MACHINERY,

APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES

(MAINLY TRANSISTORS AND DIODES AND

HOUSEHOLD TYPE

APPLIANCES)

1 244

ON

FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1980

828

416

50

THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM TEN MAJOR SOURCES ARE SUMMARIZED AS FOLLOWS :-

JAN-APR 80

(HK$ M)

JAN-APR 79

(HK$ M)

INCREASE (HK$ M)

PERCENTAGE CHANGE

JAPAN

7 481

5 594

+ 1 887

34

CHINA

6 086

3 985

+ 2 101

53

U.S.A.

3 975

2 849

• 1 126

40

TAIWAN

2 369

1 719

650

38

SINGAPORE

2 265

1 295

970

75

U.K.

1 652

1 191

461

39

REP. OF KOREA

1 113

742

371

50

F.R. OF GERMANY

995.

840

155

18

SWITZERLAND

883

798

85

11

THAILAND

566

431

135

31

IMPORT DEMAND FOR JAPANESE GOODS REMAINED STRONG, INCREASES WERE NOTED PARTICULARLY FOR ROAD VEHICLES (BY $301 MILLION OR 91 PER CENT), TEXTILES (BY $216 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT), TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $190 MILLION OR 38 PER CENT), IRON AND STEEL (BY $180 MILLION OR 53 PER CENT) AS WELL AS WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $127 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT).

IMPORTS FROM CHINA ROSE CONSIDERABLY, MAINLY OF PETROLEUM AND RELATED PRODUCTS (BY $396 MILLION OR 122 PER CENT), TEXTILES (BY $268 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT), CLOTHING (BY 264 MILLION OR 127 PER CENT), LIVE ANIMALS CHIEFLY FOR FOOD (BY $95 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT), AND MEAT AND MEAT PREPARATIONS (BY $78 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT).

INCREASES IN IMPORTS FROM THE U.S, WERE LARGELY OF ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, AND CELLULOSE ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $316 MILLION OR 228 PER CENT), TEXTILE FIBRES AND THEIR WASTES (BY $152 MILLION OR 60 PER CENT), OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $146 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT), AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES (BY $70 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS OF PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $14 MILLION OR 5 PER CENT).

/SIGNIFICANT INCREASES

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