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MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1988

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN COFFEE, TEA, COCOA, SPICES, AND MANUFACTURES THEREOF (BY $20 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT); AND POWER GENERATING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (BY $17 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN INCREASED BY $3,096 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT. ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $732 MILLION OR 113 PER CENT); AND TEXTILES (BY $384 MILLION OR 59 PER CENT). A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $37 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT).

OR

RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN RECORDED AN INCREASE OF $3,746 MILLION 63 PER CENT. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1,389 MILLION OR 67 PER CENT); AND CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $547 MILLION OR 118 PER CENT). HOWEVER, A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN DAIRY PRODUCTS AND BIRDS" EGGS (BY $22 MILLION OR 51 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA GREW BY $3,126 MILLION

53 PER CENT. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES

WERE RECORDED

TEXTILES

WOLEHIYH

$1,202 MILLION OR 74 PER CENT); AND

ELECTRICAL

OR

(BY

MACHINERY, APPARATUS $516

VEGETABLES

AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY PER CENT). A DECREASE WAS REGISTERED $14 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

MILLION

AND FRUIT (BY

RE-EXPORTS FROM 10 MAJOR COUNTRIES

TABLE 2.

OF ORIGIN ARE GIVEN IN

GOODS FROM CHINA, JAPAN, THE USA, TAIWAN AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA CONTRIBUTED 46 PER CENT, 13 PER CENT, 7 PER CENT, 7 PER CENT AND 3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY TO THE TOTAL VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS THROUGH HONG KONG IN 1987.

MAJOR KONG

COMPARING 1987 WITH 1986, ALL THE

ORIGIN COUNTRIES SUPPLIED MORE IN VALUE TERMS ΤΟ HONG

FOR RE-EXPORTS, PARTICULARLY THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+72 PER CENT), CHINA (+63 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+46 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+45 PER CENT), FRANCE (+44 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (+32 PER CENT).

CHINA CONTINUED TO BE THE LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS IN 1987. A GROWTH OF 63 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS WAS RECORDED IN THE RE-EXPORTS ORIGINATING IN CHINA AS COMPARED WITH 1986.

INCREASES

WERE

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY,

RECORDED IN MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $6,681 MILLION OR 87 PER CENT); TEXTILES (BY $5,274 MILLION OR 54 PER CENT); AND CLOTHING (BY $4,654 MILLION OR 37 PER CENT).

/HOWEVER, DECREASES