TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1981
SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (BY $1 640 MILLION OR 172 PER CENT), USA (BY $632 MILLION OR 80 PER CENT), INDONESIA (BY $535 MILLION OR 73 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (BY $316 MILLION OR 47 PER CENT), JAPAN (BY $161 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT), MACAU (BY $147 MILLION OR 53 PER CENT), NIGERIA (BY $140 MILLION OR 69 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA (BY $107 MILLION OR 36 PER CENT), UK (BY $98 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT) AND PANAMA (BY $94 MILLION OR 204 PER CENT).
ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO BELGIUM AND LUXEMBURG (BY $28 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT) AND SWITZERLAND (BY $85 MILLION OR 37 PER CENT).
MOST COMMODITIES RE-EXPORTED THROUGH HONG KONG EXHIBITED STRONG GROWTH, THE MORE SIGNIFICANT ONES BEING TEXTILES (BY $1 142 MILLION OR 113 PER CENT), ROAD VEHICLES (BY $531 MILLION OR 198 PER CENT), ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES (BY $372 MILLION OR 75 PER CENT), TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $356 MILLION OR 118 PER CENT), AS WELL AS WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $245 MILLION OR 45 PER CENT).
+THE HONG KONG TRADE STATISTICS - SUMMARY+, BEING A SUMMARY REPORT ON HONG KONG'S EXTERNAL TRADE IN APRIL 1981, WILL SOON BE ON SALE AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AT HK$3 PER COPY.
A MORE COMPREHENSIVE REPORT, +HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE+, WITH A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE MONTH'S IMPORTS, EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS, WILL BE PUBLISHED IN EARLY JULY AND WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AT HK$10 PER COPY.
ENQUIRIES CONCERNING SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THESE REPORTS MAY BE DIRECTED TO THE INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT AT BASKERVILLE HOUSE, 13 DUDDELL STREET, CENTRAL, HONG KONG. (TEL. NO.: 5-214375)
TSUEN WAN BYPASS STAGE I OPENED
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TRAFFIC FLOW TO AND FROM THE CONTAINER PORT AND TSING YI ISLAND, AND TRAFFIC ON THE KWAI CHUNG ROAD SYSTEM WILL ALL BENEFIT FROM STAGE ONE OF THE TSUEN WAN BYPASS, UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, DR FRANCIS YUAN-HAO TIEN, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).
DR TIEN WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF STAGE ONE OF THE BYPASS, WHICH EXTENDS FROM KWAI CHUNG ROAD TO TEXACO ROAD.
HE SAID THE PROJECT WAS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN.
/STAGE ONE
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