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SUNDAY, JUNE 11. 1989

HONG KONG'S EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR APRIL 1989

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BY

TO

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN APRIL 1989, AT $93.475 MILLION, GREW 22 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS COMPARED WITH APRIL 1988, ACCORDING

1989 RELEASED APRIL THE

FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN DETAILED TODAY (SUNDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

IN

MILLION,

WHICH OVER THE SAME CENT TO $47.919

DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED BY 9 PER CENT TO $17.480 MILLION APRIL 1989, WHILE RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 36 PER CENT TO $28,075 THUS BRINGING TOTAL EXPORTS IN APRIL 1989 TO $45,555 MILLION, REPRESENTED AN INCREASE OF 24 PER CENT OVER APRIL 1988. PERIOD OF COMPARISON. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 20 PER MILLION.

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JANUARY TO APRIL 1989, AT MILLION, INCREASED BY 27 PER CENT COMPARED WITH THE SAME 1988.

$346,554 PERIOD IN

VALUE OF DOMESTIC RE-EXPORTS VALUE OF IMPORTS

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS INCREASED BY 9 PER CENT TO $65,407 MILLION. WHILE INCREASED BY 40 PER CENT TO $103,197 MILLION. THUS, THE TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 26 PER CENT TO $168,604 MILLION. INCREASED BY 28 PER CENT TO $177.950 MILLION.

GROWTH WAS COMPARING APRIL 1989 WITH APRIL 1988, SUBSTANTIAL

AND RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA (+32 PER CENT)

TO JAPAN, TAIWAN

EXPORTS (+22 PER CENT). THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC AUSTRALIA, AND CANADA ALSO INCREASED, BY 17 PER CENT, 15 PER CENT 11 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

AND

THIRD BY 4 PER AND THE

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE LARGEST MARKET FOLLOWING THE U.S.A. AND CHINA, INCREASED CENT. HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE U.S.A. NETHERLANDS DECREASED, BOTH BY 1 PER CENT.

TERMS IN IMPORTS FROM ALL MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED IN VALUE

(+41 PER APRIL 1989 OVER APRIL 1988, PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM ITALY

PER CENTI. THE FEDERAL CENT), TAIWAN (+28 PER CENT), CHINA ( +27

(+26 PER REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+27 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA CENT).

(+19 PER CENTI. U.S.A. SINGAPORE

PER CENT) AND THE (+25

SUPPLIER FOLLOWING CHINA, FROM

THE SECOND LARGEST JAPAN, INCREASED BY 5 PER CENT.

IMPORTS

RE-EXPORTS

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AUSTRALIA,

THE

UNITED KINGDOM,

THE

FEDERAL

PERIOD OF CENT. 45 PER CENT,

JAPAN AND THE REPUBLIC OF REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE U.S.A., ITALY, KOREA INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS OVER THE SAME COMPARISON, BY 74 PER CENT, 55 PER CENT, 50 PER 39 PER CENT, 38 PER CENT AND 37 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY,

ALSO RECORDED

IN

VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO INCREASES WERE

AND TAIWAN (+23 PER SINGAPORE (+31 PER CENT), CHINA (+30 PER CENT) CENT).

COMPARING JANUARY TO APRIL 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO MOST MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS.

1988,

THE MARKETS