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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1989

HOWEVER, THOSE TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE DECREASED BY 4 PER CENT AND 2 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

JANUARY IN

TO MAY 1989 FROM ALL

SAME TERMS COMPARED WITH THE

USA

SUPPLIERS

IN 1988. (+42 PER

IMPORTS

MAJOR

INCREASED IN VALUE

PERIOD

SIGNIFICANT

WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM ITALY INCREASES CENT), SINGAPORE (+38 PER CENT), CHINA (+34 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+30 PER CENT), CENT),

THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+23 PER CENT), THE USA (+22 PER

GERMANY (+19 PER JAPAN

PER CENT) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF (+21 CENT).

FEDERAL THE USA, BY 63 PER CENT

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, ITALY, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN AND CHINA INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS, CENT, 62 PER CENT, 51 PER CENT, 50 PER CENT, 43 PER CENT, 42 PER AND 40 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

AT CURRENT ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE ARE MEASURED

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

THE PRICE THE

AND A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF PERIODS OF COMPARISON.

RELEASED IN VOLUME

OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN MAY 1989 WILL BE MOVEMENTS EARLY AUGUST 1989.

THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

IN

1988,

OFFICE

COMPARING JANUARY TO MAY 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD

IN NOTABLE INCREASES

FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $865 MILLION OR CELLULOSE 18

PER CENT): ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, AND

AND ELECTRICAL ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $585 MILLION OR 71 PER CENT); MACHINERY,

APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF $529 MILLION OR 8 PER CENT).

(BY

DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING INCREASED BY $1,304 MILLION OR

6

PER CENT.

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR FOOTWEAR (BY $95 15

MANUFACTURED ARTICLES OR

PER CENT) AND MISCELLANEOUS MILLION OR 1 PER CENT).

MILLION (BY $89

TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS COMMODITY DIVISION.

BY MAJOR

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

ARE

COMPARING

JANUARY

1988,

TO MAY 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS WERE RECORDED IN ALL MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

IN

/THE MORE