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́REDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1963

HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORT TRADE FOR JANUARY TO JUNE

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THE VALUE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORT TRADE REACHED HK$23 975 MILLION FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY TO JUNE, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF $2 559 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT, AS COMPARED WITH 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 1983.

RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET

THE CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS BY 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE GIVEN IN TABLE 1 AT THE END OF THIS PRESS RELEASE.

CHINA WAS AGAIN THE LARGEST MARKET FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS. WITH A SLIGHT INCREASE OF $182 MILLION OR FOUR PER CENT. INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IRON AND STEEL (BY $93 MILLION OR 119 PER CENT) AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS, APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS (BY $86 MILLION OR 55 PER CENT). ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED IN TEXTILES (BY $256 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT) AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $66 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT).

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S.A. (BY $729 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT), THE SECOND LARGEST MARKET FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS, THE COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE CLOTHING (BY $381 MILLION OR 63 PER CENT) AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, MAINLY BASKET WORK, WICKERWORK AND WORK OF PLAITING MATERIALS (BY $58 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT), AND TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (BY $57 MILLION OR 86 PER CENT). NOTABLE DECREASES IN RE-EXPORTS TO THE U.S.A. WERE RECORDED FOR FISH, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS, AND PREPARATIONS (BY $35 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT) AND PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (BY $34 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT).

A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (INCLUDING AIR CUSHION VEHICLES) (BY $207 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT) TO INDONESIA. INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS OF CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $47 MILLION OR 285 PER CENT), OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUIT (BY $39 MILLION OR 52 PER CENT), AND IRON AND STEEL (BY $18 MILLION OR 44 PER CENT).

AN OVERALL INCREASE OF $368 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT IN RE-EXPORTS WAS REGISTERED FOR SINGAPORE. COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $74 MILLION OR 75 PER CENT) AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $64 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT).

A DECREASE OF $24 MILLION OR 51 PER CENT WAS RECORDED FOR PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS.

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS (BY $87 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT) AND DYEING, TANNING AND COLOURING MATERIALS (BY $20 MILLION OR 35 PER CENT) TO TAIWAN. A DECREASE OF $35 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT WAS RECORDED FOR NON-FERROUS METALS.

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