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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1988

THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

INCREASES IN

COMPARING JANUARY 1988 WITH JANUARY 1987. DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN VALUE TERMS WERE RECORDED IN ALL MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

THE MORE NOTABLE ONES INCLUDED CLOTHING (BY $595 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $348 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $332 MILLION OR 35 PER CENT); AS WELL AS OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $274 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT).

CENT);

AS

ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN TRAVEL GOODS,

PER HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (BY $16 MILLION OR 11 WELL AS VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (BY $10 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT).

TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC

COMMODITY DIVISION.

EXPORTS BY MAJOR

THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.

ARE

COMPARING JANUARY 1988 WITH JANUARY 1987. INCREASES IN IMPORTS IN VALUE TERMS WERE REGISTERED FOR SEVERAL CATEGORIES.

APPLIANCES AND THESE WERE ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1,098 MILLION OR 54 PER CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $661 MILLION OR 56 PER CENT); MISCELLANEOUS

AS CENT);

WELL AS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $601 MILLION OR 49 PER

CELLULOSE ESTERS ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC

MATERIALS,

BTHERS (BY $593 MILLION OR 104 PER CENT).

AND

AND

SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN OIL

28 PER CENT); FRUIT (BY $14 MILLION OR

AS WELL AS MISCELLANEOUS EDIBLE PRODUCTS AND PREPARATIONS (BY $8 MILLION OR 6 PER CENT).

TABLE 4 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS BY

MAJOR COMMODITY

DIVISION.

THE CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR SHOWN IN TABLE 5.

MARKETS ARE

/COMPARING JANUARY