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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1989

DOMESTIC EXPORTS THE MARKETS WITH MORE SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN

CENTI AND SINGAPORE INCLUDED JAPAN (+36 PER CENT), CHINA (+35 PER

EXPORTS WERE ALSO (+21 PER CENT). INCREASES IN VALUE OF DOMESTIC RECORDED IN AUSTRALIA (+15 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (+14 PER AND THE UNITED KINGDOM +13 PER CENT).

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HOWEVER, THOSE TO FRANCE, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

CENT AND 2 THE U.S.A. DECREASED BY 7 PER CENT, 4 PER RESPECTIVELY.

AND PER CENT

SUPPLIERS

IN 1988. (+45 PER

IMPORTS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989 FROM ALL MAJOR QUARTER INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS COMPARED WITH THE SAME SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM ITALY CENT), SINGAPORE (+39 PER CENT), CHINA (+38 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+35 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (+30 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+28 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (+27 PER CENT).

ITALY, THE OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO

AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE UNITED KINGDOM, CHINA AND THE U.S.A. INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS, PER CENT, 67 PER CENT, 56 PER CENT, 53 PER CENT, 51 PER CENT, 50 CENT AND 42 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

BY 74 PER

AT CURRENT ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE ARE MEASURED

BETWEEN PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES

THE PRICE AND THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON. A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF

IN VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN MARCH 1989 WILL BE RELEASED EARLY JUNE 1989.

THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR

COMPARING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989 WITH THE SAME 1988,

INCREASES IN VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

QUARTER IN RECORDED IN ALL

DATA

THE MORE NOTABLE ONES WERE OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC

CENT); ELECTRICAL PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $645 MILLION OR 24 PER

(BY MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF

APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT $575 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT); AND PHOTOGRAPHIC

AND CLOCKS (BY $332 AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND WATCHES

BY MILLION OR 8 PER CENT). DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING INCREASED $600 MILLION OR 4 PER CENT.

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN FOOTWEAR (BY $46 MILLION OR OR 13 PER CENT) AND TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $34 MILLION 7 PER CENT).

TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS COMMODITY DIVISION.

BY MAJOR

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

MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE

/COMPARING THE ...