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SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE OF THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $272 MILLION OR 207 PER CENT), TEXTILE MADE-UP ARTICLES (BY $45 MILLION OR 107 PER CENT) AND PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $36 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT).

IN CONTRAST, RE-EXPORTS TO SWITZERLAND DECLINED (BY $185 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT).

NOTABLE DECREASES WERE RECORDED MAINLY IN SILVER, PLATINUM AND OTHER METALS OF THE PLATINUM GROUP (BY $36 MILLION OR 94 PER CENT), SCRAP AND SWEEPINGS OF PRECIOUS METALS (OTHER THAN OF GOLD) (BY $38 MILLION OR 90 PER CENT), AND COINS NOT CURRENTLY IN USE (BY $75 MILLION OR 99 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIQIN

RE-EXPORTS BROKEN DOWN BY MAJOR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ARE

SHOWN BELOW 1

1981 (HK$ MN.)

1980

(HK$ MN.)

INCREASE (HK$ MN.)

PERCENTAGE

CHANGE

CHINA

12 834

8 394

+4 440

+53%

JAPAN

8 394

5 884

+2 510

+43%

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4 041

3 157

884

+28%

TAIWAN

3 379

2 134

+1 245

+58%

REP. OF KOREA

1 954

877

+1 077

+123%

CHINA REMAINED THE LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS. INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS OF CHINA ORIGIN WERE NOTED FOR MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, MAINLY BASKET-WORK, WICKER- WORK AND ARTICLES OF PLAITING MATERIALS (BY $290 MILLION OR 44 PER CENT), WOVEN COTTON FABRICS (BY $286 MILLION OR 78 PER CENT), WOMEN'S GIRLS AND INFANTS OUTER GARMENTS OF TEXTILE FABRICS (BY $248 MILLION OR 92 PER CENT), VEGETABLES, ROOTS AND TUBERS (BY $237 MILLION OR 218 PER CENT), AS WELL AS OIL SEEDS AND CLEAGINOUS FRUIT FOR EXTRACTION OF VEGETABLE OILS (BY $226 MILLION OR 320 PER CENT).

MOST RE-EXPORT COMMODITIES OF JAPAN ORIGIN SHOWED STRONG GROWTH, THE MORE SIGNIFICANT ONES BEING GOODS VEHICLES AND SPECIAL PURPOSE MOTOR VEHICLES (BY $515 MILLION OR 249 PER CENT), MOTORCYCLES, MOTOR SCOOTERS AND OTHER CYCLES (BY $472 MILLION OR 85 PER CENT), TELEVISION RECEIVERS (BY $175 MILLION OR 116 PER CENT), AND THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY $114. MILLION OR 53 PER CENT).

/OVERSEAS PURCHASES

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