XN000022-1983-06-12 — Page 3

SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1983

INCREASES

DEMAND FOR IMPORTED GOODS FROM CHINA REMAINED STRONG, WERE RECORDED MAINLY IN CLOTHING (BY $336 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT), PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (BY $102 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT), MEAT AND MEAT PREPARATIONS (BY $78 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT) AND CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $69 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT).

AS FOR IMPORTS FROM JAPAN, INCREASES WERE NOTED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $362 MILLION OR 38 PER CENT), AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $180 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT). HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (INCLUDING AIR CUSHION VEHICLES) (BY $92 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT); AND GENERAL INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT, AND MACHINE PARTS (BY $76 MILLION OR 15 PER CENT).

INCREASES IN IMPORTS FROM THE USA WERE MOSTLY OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $236 MILLION OR 45 PER CENT), PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (BY $223 MILLION OR 602 PER CENT) AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $125 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS OF GENERAL INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT, AND MACHINE PARTS (BY $64 MILLION OR 27 PER CENT) AND PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES UNWORKED OR WORKED (BY $51 MILLION OR 18 PER CENT).

DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS FROM TAIWAN OF TEXTILES (BY $232 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT) AND IN IMPORTS FROM SINGAPORE OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (BY $777 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT). HOWEVER, IMPORTS OF VEGETABLES AND FRUIT FROM TAIWAN INCREASED (BY $31 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT)- AND IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF FROM SINGAPORE ALSO INCREASED (BY $69 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT).

TABLE 4 ILLUSTRATES THE MORE IMPORTANT CHANGES IN IMPORTS BY COMMODITY SECTIONS.

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE USA (BY $408 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (BY $210 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT), REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA) (BY $159 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT), SAUDI ARABIA (BY $153 MILLION OR 69 PER CENT), INDONESIA (BY $145 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT), VIETNAM (BY $103 MILLION OR 148 PER CENT), MACAU (BY $59 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (BY $48 MILLIÓN OR SIX PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECLINES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (BY $273 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (BY $75 MILLION OR NINE PER CENT). THE CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS BY TEN MAJOR MARKETS ARE GIVEN IN TABLE 5.

MOST COMMODITIES RE-EXPORTED THROUGH HONG KONG EXHIBITED STRONG GROWTH, THE MORE SIGNIFICANT ONES BEING CLOTHING (BY $375 MILLION OR 47 PER CENT), PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, OPTICAL GOODS AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $188 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT), OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $126 MILLION OR 49 PER CENT) AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $114 MILLION OR 11 PER CENT).

/DECREASES