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SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1989

THE MARKETS WITH MORE SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCLUDED CHINA (+34 PER CENT AND JAPAN (+30 PER CENT).

THERE WERE ALSO INCREASES IN VALUE OF

(+15 PER PER CENT).

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO TAIWAN (+20 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+18 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA CENT),

CANADA (+12 PER CENT) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+12 HOWEVER. THOSE ΤΟ THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE U.S.A. DECREASED BY 3 PER CENT AND 2 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

IMPORTS IN JANUARY TO APRIL 1989 FROM ALL MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1988.

(+44

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM ITALY PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+36 PER CENT), CHINA (+35 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+33 PER (+27 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA +27 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+21 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (+20 PER CENT).

KINGDOM,

ITALY,

THE

JAPAN,

63

PER

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. AUSTRALIA. THE UNITED CHINA AND THE U.S.A. INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS, BY PER CENT, 62 PER CENT, 57 PER CENT, 56 PER CENT, 48 PER CENT, 44 CENT AND 43 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

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 APRIL 1989 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY JULY 1989.

THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S TEN MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

COMPARING JANUARY TO APRIL 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1988, INCREASES IN VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE RECORDED IN ALL MAJOR COMMODITY

DIVISIONS.

THE MORE NOTABLE ONES WERE OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $744 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $656 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT); AND ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC PER MATERIALS, AND CELLULOSE ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $462 MILLION OR 73 CENT).

DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING INCREASED BY $1,181 MILLION OR PER

HOWEVER, CENT.

DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR FOOTWEAR

$72 (BY MILLION OR 15 PER CENT) AND SANITARY, PLUMBING, HEATING AND LIGHTING FIXTURES AND FITTINGS (BY $57 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT).

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TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS COMMODITY DIVISION.

BY MAJOR

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

/COMPARING JANUARY .............