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MONDAY, JULY 14, 1980

INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE WEST GERMAN MARKET WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $314 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $68 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT) AS WELL AS ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES (BY $46 MILLION OR 75 PER CENT).

GROWTH IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE UK MARKET WAS RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $116 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT), AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $69 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT).

ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN EXPORTS OF TEXTILES (BY $50 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT).

THE DOWNWARD TREND IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN CONTINUED. MARKED DECREASES WERE NOTED MAINLY FOR FISH, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS, AND THEIR PREPARATIONS (BY $51 MILLION OR 37 PER CENT), CLOTHING (BY $48 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT), AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $6 MILLION OR SIX PER CENT).

THE ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISION IS:

ARTICLES OF

APPAREL AND

JAN - MAY 80

(HK$ MN.)

JAN - MAY 79

(HK$ MN.)

INCREASE (HK$ MN.)

PERCENTAGE CHANGE

CLOTHING

8 430

6 909

+ 1 521

+ 22

ACCESSORIES

MISCELLANEOUS

MANUFACTURED

ARTICLES

(MAINLY PLASTIC

TOYS AND

4 065

3 044

+ 1 021

+ 34

DOLLS)

PHOTOGRAPHIC

APPARATUS.

OPTICAL GOODS,

WATCHES

2 433

1 585

848

+ 54

AND CLOCKS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

AND SOUND

RECORDING AND

REPRODUCING

1 936

1 255

681

+ 54

APPARATUS AND

EQUIPMENT

TEXTILE YARN,

FABRICS. MADE-UP

ARTICLES AND

1 793

1 461

332

+ 23

RELATED PRODUCTS

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