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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1982

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ANALYSIS OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORT TRADE BY COUNTRY FOR JANUARY TO JUNE 1982

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THE VALUE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY TO JUNE 1982 WAS $21 417 MILLION, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF $1 881 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT, AS COMPARED TO THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT RELEASED TODAY A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET AND BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1982.

RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET

THE FOLLOWING SHOWS THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF FIVE MAJOR MARKETS FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS 1-

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JAN JUNE 1982 ($ MILLION)

PERCENTAGE CHANGE

JAN - JUNE 1981 ($MILLION)

INCREASE ($MILLION)

CHINA

4 119

3 927

+192

+ 5

U.S.A.

2 613

2 194

+419

+19

INDONESIA

2 194

1 932

+262

+14

SINGAPORE

1 637

1 534

+103

7

JAPAN

1 280

1 268

+ 12

+1

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (BY $192 MILLION OR FIVE PER CENT), THE LARGEST MARKET FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS. THE COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (BY $250 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT), CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $102 MILLION OR 104 PER CENT) MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $65 MILLION OR 44 PER CENT) AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, PARTS AND ACCESSORIES (BY $57 MILLION OR 124 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES IN VALUE WERE MAINLY REGISTERED IN TEXTILE YARN (BY $267 MILLION OR 33 PER CENT) AND TELEVISION RECEIVERS (BY $260 MILLION OR 72 PER CENT).

INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S. WERE REGISTERED IN CLOTHING (BY $237 MILLION OR 65 PER CENT), OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, MAINLY BASKET WORK, WICKER-WORK AND ARTICLES OF PLAITING MATERIALS (BY $48 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT), VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (BY $45 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT) AS WELL AS THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS AND TRANSISTORS (BY 41 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT). SIGNIFICANT DECREASES IN VALUE WERE NOTED FOR PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $26 MILLION OR NINE PER CENT) AND OIL SEEDS AND CLEAGINOUS FRUIT FOR EXTRACTION OF VEGETABLE OILS (BY $163 MILLION OR 100 PER CENT).

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