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THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1982

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CONSIDERABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS OF PETROLEUM AND RELATED PRODUCTS FROM SINGAPORE (BY $138 MILLION OR FIVE PER CENT), AND OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES FROM TAIWAN (BY $173 MILLION OR 38 PER CENT). IMPORTS OF TEXTILES FROM TAIWAN DECLINED (BY $157 MILLION OR NINE PER CENT).

THE FOLLOWING TABLE ILLUSTRATES THE MORE IMPORTANT CHANGES IN IMPORTS BY COMMODITY SECTION :-

JAN.-MAY 1982 JAN.-MAY 1981

(HK$ MN)

(HK$ MN)

INCREASE/

DECREASE PERCENTAGE (HK$ MN)

CHANGE

MANUFACTURED GOODS

16 598

15 940

CLASSIFIED CHIEFLY BY MATERIAL (MAINLY

TEXTILE PRODUCTS, DIAMONDS, IRON AND

STEEL, AND PAPER)

MACHINERY

AND TRANSPORT

EQUIPMENT

658

12 736

12 560

176

+ 1

MISCELLANEOUS

9 460

8 906

554

MANUFACTURED

ARTICLES (MAINLY

WATCHES AND

CLOCKS, ARTICLES

OF APPAREL)

FOOD AND LIVE

6 050

5 226

824

+16

ANIMALS CHIEFLY

FOR FOOD

MINERAL FUELS.

4 572

4 314

258

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ON

LUBRICANTS AND

RELATED MATERIALS

CHEMICALS AND

3 874

3 565

309

+ 9

RELATED PRODUCTS

SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS RECORDED IN RE-EXPORTS TO U.S.A. (BY $307 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT), CHINA (BY $244 MILLION OR EIGHT PER CENT), INDONESIA (BY $201 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT), REPUBLIC OF KOREA BY $146 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT) SAUDI ARABİA (BY $124 MILLION OR 65 PER CENT), PHILIPPINES (BY $117 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT), MACAU (BY $104 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT), AND SINGAPORE (BY $91 MILLION OR SEVEN PER CENT).

ON THE OTHER HAND, DECLINES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO FRANCE (BY $59 MILLION OR 33 PER CENT) AND U.K. (BY $237 MILLION OR 49 PER CENT).

MOST COMMODITIES