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SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1981

ANALYSIS OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORT TRADE

BY COUNTRY FOR 1980 ******

HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORT TRADE REACHED A RECORD $30 072 MILLION IN 1980, AN INCREASE OF 50 PER CENT OVER 1979.

A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET AND BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN FOR 1980 WAS RELEASED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

RE-EXPORT BY MARKET

HUGE INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (BY $3 327 MILLION OR 253%), WHICH NOW BECOMES THE LARGEST MARKET FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS. THE COMMODITIES WITH THE BIGGEST INCREASES WERE TEXTILE YARN (BY $563 MILLION OR 463%), WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (BY $380 MILLION OR 1 374%), TELEVISION RECEIVERS (BY $234 MILLION OR 275%), MOTOR VEHICLES (BY $132 MILLION OR 222%), AND CRUDE VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $132 MILLION OR 147%).

INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S. WERE REGISTERED IN MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, MAINLY BASKET-WORK, WICKER-WORK AND PLAITING MATERIALS BY $113 MILLION OR 91%), WOMEN'S, GIRLS' AND INFANTS' OUTER GARMENTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS (OTHER THAN KNITTED OR CROCHETED GOODS) (BY $112 MILLION OR 149%), PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $64 MILLION OR 15%), EXPLOSIVES AND PYROTECHNIC PRODUCTS (BY $47 MILLION OR 48%), AND THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $44 MILLION OR 24%).

RE-EXPORTS TO INDONESIA SHOWED INCREASES FOR MOTORCYCLES, MOTOR SCOOTERS AND OTHER CYCLES (BY $433 MILLION OR 315%), TEXTILE AND LEATHER MACHINERY AND PARTS THEREOF (BY $47 MILLION OR 79%), PASSENGER MOTOR CARS (BY $32 MILLION OR 64%), AND TEXTILE YARN (BY $29 MILLION OR 49%).

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE OF WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $247 MILLION OR 72%), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $74 MILLION OR 130%) AND GRAMOPHONES, DICTATING MACHINES AND OTHER SOUND RECORDERS OR REPRODUCERS (BY $44 MILLION OR 179%).

IN CONTRAST, RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN DROPPED (BY $276 MILLION OR 11%). NOTABLE DECREASES WERE RECORDED MAINLY IN TEXTILES (BY $165 MILLION OR 44%), FISH, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS, AND PREPARATIONS THEREOF (BY $39 MILLION OR 15%), AND PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $32 MILLION OR 5%).

THE FOLLOWING TABLE GIVES THE CHANGES IN HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS TO THE FIVE MAJOR MARKETS :-

/1980