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INCREASES

JAPAN WAS THE SECOND LARGEST SOURCE OF RE-EXPORTS. WERE REGISTERED IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1 303 MILLION OR 90 PER CENT), MOTOR VEHICLES FOR THE TRANSPORT OF GOODS OR MATERIALS AND SPECIAL PURPOSE MOTOR VEHICLES (BY $1 022 MILLION OR 216 PER CENT), THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, DIODES, TRANSISTORS AND PARTS (BY $960 MILLION OR 134 PER CENT), AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES AND UNITS (BY $438 MILLION OR 323 PER CENT).

OVERSEAS PURCHASES OF U.S. PRODUCTS THROUGH HONG KONG REMAINED ACTIVE IN 1984. INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN THERMIONIC, COLD CATHODE AND PHOTO-CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, PHOTOCELLS, DIODES TRANSISTORS AND PARTS (BY $761 MILLION OR 79 PER CENT), AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES AND UNITS (BY $366 MILLION OR 148 PER CENT) AND CIVIL ENGINEERING AND CONTRACTORS' PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS (BY $181 MILLION OR 202 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS OF TAIWAN ORIGIN SHOWED SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE. THE COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE WOVEN FABRICS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES (BY $664 MILLION OR 167 PER CENT) AND TEXTILE YARN (BY $43) MILLION OR 103 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA) ORIGIN ALSO INCREASED, PARTICULARLY FOR TEXTILE YARN (BY $337 MILLION OR 336 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS BY ORIGIN AND DESTINATION

WHEN ANALYSED BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND THEN BY DESTINATION, INCREASE WERE REGISTERED IN RE-EXPORTS OF CHINA ORIGIN TO THE U.S. (BY $3 268 MILLION OR 59 PER CENT), CHINA (BY $1 122 MILLION OR 113 PER CENT), JAPAN (BY $1 026 MILLION OR 92 PER CENT) AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA) (BY $605 MILLION OR 72 PER CENT). INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS OF JAPAN ORIGIN WERE MAINLY TO CHINA (BY $6 092 MILLION OR 180 PER CENT), U.S. (BY $305 MILLION OR 59 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (BY $262 MILLION OR 78 PER CENT). SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE ALSO NOTED IN RE-EXPORTS OF U.S. ORIGIN TO CHINA (BY $1 458 MILLION OR 99 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (BY $428 MILLION OR 65 PER CENT).

TABLE 1: RE-EXPORTS BY TEN MAJOR MARKETS

INCREASE(+)

DECREASE(-)

PERCENTAGE CHANGE

(%)

MAJOR MARKETS

1984 (HK$ MN.)

1983 (HK$ MN.)

(HK$ MN.)

CHINA

U.S.A.

28 064

12 109

12 183

8 028

+15 882

+130

+ 4 081

+ 51

/TAIWAN