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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1980

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SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE NOTED IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING (BY $410 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT), WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $66 MILLION OR 35 PER CENT) AS WELL AS ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES (BY $56 MILLION OR 76 PER CENT) TO THE WEST GERMAN MARKET.

GROWTH IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO U.K. WAS RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $161 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT), AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (EY $70 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT). HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF TEXTILES (3Y $56 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT) TO THIS MARKET.

THE DOWNWARD TREND IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN CONTINUED. MARKED DECREASES WERE NOTED MAINLY FOR FISH, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS, AND THE IR PREPARATIONS (BY $60 MILLION OR 37 PER CENT) AND CLOTHING (BY $56 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT).

AN ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISION IS PRESENTED BELOW:

JAN

-

JUNE BO JAN (HK$ M.)

JUNE 79 INCREASE (HK$ M.) (HK$ M.)

ARTICLES OF

APPAREL AND

CLOTHING

ACCESSORIES

MISCELLANEOUS

MANUFACTURED

ARTICLES (MAINLY

PLASTIC TOYS AND DOLLS)

PHOTOGRAPHIC

PERCENTAGE

CHANGE

10 588

8 679

+ 1 909

22

5 082

3 828

+ 1 254

33

APPARATUS, OPTICAL

GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS

3 026

2 000

+ 1 026

51

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

AND SOUND RECORDING

AND REPRODUCING

APPARATUS AND

EQUIPMENT

2 361

1 575

786

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TEXTILE YARN, FABRICS,

MADE-UP ARTICLES

AND RELATED

PRODUCTS

ELECTRICAL MACHINERY,

APPARATUS AND

APPLIANCES (MAINLY

TRANSISTORS AND

DIODES AND

HOUSEHOLD TYPE APPLIANCES)

2 158

1 761

397

23

2 025

1 341

684

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