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SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1989

THE MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN MAN-MADE FIBRES; IRON AND STEEL; THERMIONIC CATHODE VALVES AND TUBES, DIODES TRANSISTORS AND ELECTRICAL MICROCIRCUITS; AND SPECIAL TEXTILE FABRICS FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSE.

DECREASES IN IMPORT VOLUME WERE NOTED FOR COTTON THREAD; AND YARN OF WOOL AND MIXTURES.

YARN AND

IMPORTS OF FUELS DECREASED BY 33 PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS IN OCTOBER 1988 COMPARED WITH OCTOBER 1987.

IN THE CAPITAL GOODS CATEGORY, THE IMPORT VOLUME INCREASED BY 30 PER CENT IN OCTOBER 1988 OVER OCTOBER 1987.

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THERE WERE SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN THE IMPORT VOLUME SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, OPTICAL, MEASURING AND CONTROLLING INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS; CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY; AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY.

COMPARING OCTOBER 1988 WITH OCTOBER 1987, IMPORT PRICES OF MOST END-USE CATEGORIES, NAMELY FOODSTUFFS, CONSUMER GOODS, RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES AND CAPITAL GOODS INCREASED, ALL BY 4 PER CENT. HOWEVER, PRICES OF IMPORTS OF FUELS DECREASED BY 11 PER CENT.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY FOR OCTOBER 1988 COMPARED WITH OCTOBER 1987 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.

AS DEPICTED IN TABLE 3, THE RE-EXPORT VOLUME OF ALL END-USE CATEGORIES INCREASED IN OCTOBER 1988 WHEN COMPARED WITH OCTOBER

1987, WITH THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE RANGING FROM 42 PER CENT FOR RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES TO 106 PER CENT FOR FUELS.

PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS OF CAPITAL GOODS INCREASED BY 7 PER CENT

IN OCTOBER 1988 WHEN COMPARED WITH OCTOBER 1987.

RE-EXPORT PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS AND RAW SEMI-MANUFACTURES BOTH ROSE BY 5 PER CENT. THOSE OF INCREASED BY 2 PER CENT.

MATERIALS AND CONSUMER GOODS

ON THE OTHER HAND, PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS OF FUELS DROPPED BY 18 PER CENT.

FURTHER DETAILS ARE CONTAINED IN THE OCTOBER 1988 "HONG KONG TRADE INDEX NUMBERS" WHICH WILL BE ON GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GPO BUILDING, CENTRAL, AROUND JANUARY 12 AT $2.50 PER COPY.

ISSUE OF THE SALE AT THE

PLACE,

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