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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1982

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM OF CLOTHING (BY $386 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT), PLASTIC TOYS AND DOLLS (BY $225 MILLION OR 63 PER CENT) AS WELL AS ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES BY $150 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT). DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF WATCHES AND CLOCKS DECLINED BY $91 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT.

MOST COMMODITIES EXPORTED TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF

GERMANY DECREASED IN VALUE, INCLUDING WATCHES AND CLOCKS (DECLINED BY $102 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT) AS WELL AS TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (DECLINED BY $129 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT).

THE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES INCREASED STEADILY (BY $33 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT).

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN THE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING TO JAPAN (BY $419 MILLION OR 58 PER CENT), AND IN THE DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $295 MILLION OR 134 PER CENT) AND TEXTILES (BY $246 MILLION OR 64 PER CENT) TO CHINA.

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

ARTICLES OF

APPAREL AND

CLOTHING

ACCESSORIES

MISCELLANEOUS

MANUFACTURED

ARTICLES (MAINLY

PLASTIC TOYS

AND DOLLS)

PHOTOGRAPHIC

APPARATUS,

OPTICAL GOODS,

WATCHES AND

CLOCKS

ELECTRICAL

MACHINERY,

APPARATUS AND

APPLIANCES

(MAINLY

TRANSISTORS AND

DIODES AND

HOUSEHOLD TYPE

APPLIANCES)

1981 (HK$ MN.)

1980

(HK$ MN.)

INCREASE (HK$ MN.)

PERCENTAGE CHANGE

28 288

23 258

+5 030

+22

13 235

11 020

+2 215

+20

8 101

7 119

982

+14

5 812

4 490

+1 322

+29

TELECOMMUNICATIONS