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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1984

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN OF TEXTILES (UP $182 MILLION OR 123 PER CENT) AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS (UP $91 MILLION OR 99 PER CENT). A DECREASE OF $15 MILLION, OR 70 PER CENT, WAS RECORDED FOR POWER GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT..

RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

IN STATISTICS FOR RE-EXPORTS CATEGORISED BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, CHINA ALSO REMAINED THE LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS. ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, INCREASES WERE NOTED FOR CLOTHING (UP $1 087 MILLION OR 62 PER CENT), TEXTILE YARN (UP $410 MILLION OR 225 PER CENT), TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (UP $320 MILLION OR 131 PER CENT), BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (UP $301 MILLION OR 415 PER CENT), WOVEN COTTON FABRICS (UP $283 MILLION OR 106 PER CENT) AND WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (UP $231 MILLION OR 69 PER CENT).

INCREASES

JAPAN WAS THE SECOND MAJOR SOURCE OF RE-EXPORTS. WERE REGISTERED IN THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, DIODES, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS (UP $475 MILLION OR 186 PER CENT), MOTOR VEHICLES FOR THE TRANSPORT OF GOODS OR MATERIALS AND SPECIAL PURPOSE MOTOR VEHICLES (UP $245 MILLION OR 117 PER CENT), TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (UP $152 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT) AND TEXTILE YARN (UP $148 MILLION OR 126 PER CENT).

OVERSEAS PURCHASES OF U.S. PRODUCTS THROUGH HONG KONG REMAINED ACTIVE FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1984. INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, DIODES, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS (UP $549 MILLION OR 167 PER CENT), AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES AND UNITS (UP $96 MILLION OR 104 PER CENT) AND MANUFACTURED TOBACCO (UP $81 MILLION OR 65 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS OF TAIWAN ORIGIN SHOWED A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE. COMMODITIES REGISTERING SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE TEXTILE YARN (UP $198 MILLION OR 126 PER CENT), WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (UP $185 MILLION OR 125 PER CENT) AS WELL AS THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, DIODES, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS (UP $78 MILLIÓN OR 100 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS OF SOUTH KOREA ORIGIN ALSO INCREASED, PARTICULARLY FOR TEXTILE YARN (UP $173 MILLION OR 439 PER CENT).

WHEN ANALYSED