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IN THE CAPITAL GOODS CATEGORY, THE IMPORT VOLUME OF OFF ICE MACHINES, ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, TEXTILE MACHINERY AND SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, OPTICAL, MEASURING AND CONTROLLING INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS INCREASED, WHILE THE IMPORT VOLUME OF TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY OTHER THAN TEXTILE AND ELECTRICAL TYPES DECREASED.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.

AS DEPICTED IN TABLE 3, THE RE-EXPORT VOLUME OF ALL END-USE CATEGORIES INCREASED, RANGING FROM 10 PER CENT FOR FOODSTUFFS TO 17 PER CENT FOR RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES.

FURTHER DETAILS ARE CONTAINED IN THE DECEMBER 1983 ISSUE OF THE +HONG KONG TRADE INDEX NUMBERS+, AVAILABLE AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AT HK$2 ̊ PER COPY.

TABLE 1:

: CHANGES COMPARING 1983 WITH 1982 OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS

BY COMMODITY GROUP

COMMODITY GROUP

EXPORT VALUE

EXPORT UNIT VALUE

EXPORT

VOLUME

CLOTHING (EXCEPT FUR)

+ 19%

+ 12%

65%

TEXTILE FABRICS

+ 40%

8%

+ 29%

TEXTILE YARN AND

THREAD

+ 49%

+

6%

+ 40%

TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND

RELATED ARTICLES

+ 31%

+ 16%

RADIOS OF ALL KINDS

2%

2%

ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

+ 72%

8%

+ 139

INSIGNIFICANT

+ 58%

FOOTWEAR

49%

69%

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METAL MANUFACTURES

METAL ORES AND SCRAP

+ 22%

+1944

7%

+ 22%

+ 15%

+142

WATCHES AND CLOCKS

+ 159%

3

+

125

TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES

+ 13%

+ 11%

19

DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL

APPLIANCES

+ 35%

6%

+ <7

ALL COMMODITIES

+ 26%

+ 10%

+ 145

/TABLE