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FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1989

SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS

CENT),

RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE

PER IMPORTS FROM WEST MALAYSIA (+73 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+41 TAIWAN (+40 PER CENT), JAPAN (+40 PER CENT) AND THE REPUBLIC OF (+40 PER CENT),

KOREA

AIRBORNE IMPORTS FROM THE U.S.A. AND SWITZERLAND, THE SECOND 27 AND THE THIRD LARGEST SUPPLIERS FOLLOWING JAPAN, ALSO INCREASED BY PER CENT AND 29 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND 45 PER APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $8,669 MILLION OR CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $4,256 MILLION OR 33 PER CENT); CENT); NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY $3,448 MILLION OR 37 PER AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $2,224 MILLION OR 41 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES (BY $635 MILLION OR 30 OR 17 PER PER CENT); RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS (BY #326 MILLION CENT); AND ROAD VEHICLES,

CUSHION VEHICLES (BY $70 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT).

INCLUDING AIR

ANALYSED BY COUNTRY WITHIN COMMODITY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS

THEREOF AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS

FROM JAPAN (BY $2,355 OR 59 MILLION OR 38 PER CENT) AND FROM THE U.S.A. (BY $2,084 MILLION

OPTICAL PER CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND GOODS, AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS FROM JAPAN (BY $2,014 MILLION OR 39 PER

SWITZERLAND CENT) AND FROM

(BY $1,066 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT); NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES FROM INDIA (BY $1,088 62 PER CENT); AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT FROM THE U.S.A. (BY $940 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT).

DATA

MILLION OR PROCESSING

IMPORTS (BY

ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE OF TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT, OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES, FROM THE U.S.A.

MILLION OR 88 9893 MILLION OR 47 PER CENT) AND FROM BAHRAIN (BY $15

KINGDOM PER CENT); RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS FROM THE UNITED

54 PER CENT); AND $155 MILLION OR

ROAD VEHICLES, INCLUDING CUSHION VEHICLES, FROM JAPAN (BY $28 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT).

(BY

AIR

AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS TO THE

10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE DEPICTED

IN

TABLE 3.

HONG

KONG'S

TO

MAJOR MOST

MARKET'S

AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS INCREASED IN VALUE IN 1988 OVER 1987.

LUXEMBOURG

AND BELGIUM

PER CENT), THE (+50 PER CENT)

THE GROWTH WAS PARTICULARLY STRONG IN (+75 PER CENT), JAPAN (+67 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (+61 UNITED KINGDOM (+52 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND SINGAPORE (+49 PER CENT).

/AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS