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MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1983
THE COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE CLOTHING (BY $573 MILLION OR 67%) AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, MAINLY BASKET-WORK, WICKER-WORK AND WORK OF PLAITING MATERIALS (BY $124 MILLION OR 23%), AND VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (BY $72 MILLION OR 37%). NOTABLE DECREASES IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S.A. WERE RECORDED FOR PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $49 MILLION OR 9%) AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS (BY $29 MILLION OR ́5%).
REMARKABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO INDONESIA OF OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUIT (BY $155 MILLION OR 968%), ROAD VEHICLES (BY $116 MILLION OR 7%) AND MANUFACTURES OF METAL (BY $72 MILLION OR 28%). A SLIGHT DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR TEXTILĖS (BY $4 MILLION OR 2%).
AN OVERALL INCREASE OF $405 MILLION OR 12% IN RE-EXPORTS WAS REGISTERED FOR SINGAPORE. COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS (BY $150 MILLION OR 34%) AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $69 MILLION OR 38%). A DECREASE OF $37 MILLION OR 6% WAS RECORDED FOR WATCHES AND CLOCKS.
SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS OF NON- FERROUS METALS (BY $109 MILLION OR 120%) AND CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $96 MILLION OR 27%) TO TAIWAN. A DECREASE OF $58 MILLION OR 40% WAS RECORDED FOR WATCHES AND CLOCKS.
RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
RE-EXPORTS BROKEN DOWN BY THE TEN MAJOR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN ARE GIVEN BELOW:-
INCREASE/
1982 (HK$ MN.)
1981 (HK$ MN.)
DECREASE (HK$ MN.)
PERCENTAGE CHANGE
(%)
CHINA
14 694
12 834
+1 860
+14
JAPAN
9 084
8 394
690
+ 8
U.S.A.
4 940
4 041
899
+22
TAIWAN
2 500
3 379
879
-26
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
(SOUTH KOREA)
1 363
1 954
591
-30
SWITZERLAND
1 075
967
108
+11
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
GERMANY
820
707
113
+16
UNITED KINGDOM
694
596
98
+16
MALAYSIA, WEST
538
356
+
182
+51
SINGAPORE
527
662
135
-20
/CHINA REMAINED
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