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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1989

IMPORTS IN JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1988 FROM ALL MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1987.

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+57 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+32 PER CENT), CHINA (+32 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (+32 PER CENT), ITALY (+30 PER CENT), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+29 PER CENT), JAPAN (+29 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+29 PER CENT).

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS то JAPAN INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS BY 82 PER CENT.

VALUE OF OF GERMANY

NOTABLE INCREASES WERE ALSO RECORDED IN THE RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA (+59 PER CENT), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC (+55 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA +54 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (+50 PER CENT), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+49 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (+15 PER CENT).

ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE ARE MEASURED AT CURRENT PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES BETWEEN THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON. A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF THE PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN NOVEMBER 1988 WILL BE RELEASED

IN EARLY FEBRUARY 1989.

THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC

EXPORTS ΤΟ HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR

MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

COMPARING JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1988 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1987, INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN VALUE TERMS WERE RECORDED IN MOST MAJOR ('OMMODITY DIVISIONS.

THE MORE NOTABLE ONES WERE OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $4.118 MILLION OR 49 PER CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $3,337 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $2,797 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT); AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $2,305 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT).

DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING INCREASED BY $939 MILLION OR 2 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS. DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN TEXTILES (BY $370 MILLION OR 3 PER CENT); AND TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (BY $171 MILLION OR 11 PER CENT).

TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISION.

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

/COMPARING JANUARY