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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1989

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GROUPING WAS

EFFECT OF LABELLING HITHERTO GOOD WORKING THE DIFFERENT

"THE STANDING COMMITTEE CONCLUDED THAT UNNECESSARY AND HAS HAD THE UNDESIRABLE

THE INDIVIDUAL SERVICES. THEREBY UNDERMINING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DISCIPLINED SERVICES AND BETWEEN GROUPS WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

"IT HAS ALSO NOTED THAT BEFORE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REVIEW COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS, NO DISTINCTION WAS MADE

THE BETWEEN VARIOUS SERVICES OTHER THAN BY INDIVIDUAL PAY SCALES. HE SAID.

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THE ANNUAL COST OF IMPLEMENTING THE STANDING COMMITTEE'S

ON DRIVING RECOMMENDATIONS

AND DIVING ALLOWANCES

BE WILL RESTORING PAY APPROXIMATELY $9.25 MILLION AND $320,000 RESPECTIVELY. PARITY WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT WILL COST AN ADDITIONAL $6.2 MILLION A YEAR.

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS WILL NEED APPROVED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

TO BE

SURVEY ON EXPORTS TO CHINA FOR OUTWARD PROCESSING

OF

TO INCREASE ITS UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OUTWARD PROCESSING IN CHINA BY HONG KONG FIRMS, IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1988 THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT INITIATED A SAMPLE SURVEY TO ENABLE IT TO SPLIT HONG KONG'S EXPORTS

AND BOTH DOMESTIC EXPORTS RE-EXPORTS INTO THOSE WHICH WERE FOR OUTWARD PROCESSING AND THOSE WHICH WERE NOT.

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THE RESULTS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989 ARE NOW AVAILABLE.

THE RESULTS SHOW THAT IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989 SOME 72 PER

KONG'S CENT OF HONG

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA WERE FOR OUTWARD PROCESSING. FOR RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA THE FIGURE WAS 36 PER CENT. THUS, FOR OVERALL EXPORTS TO CHINA, SOME 45 PER CENT WERE FOR OUTWARD PROCESSING.

WERE

IN VALUE TERMS. THESE PROPORTIONS IMPLY THAT SOME $6,478 MILLION OF THE $8,984 MILLION OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO OUTWARD PROCESSING.

CHINA

FOR

FOR RE-EXPORTS THE CORRESPONDING FIGURES WERE $8.934 MILLION OUT OF OUT OF $25,132 MILLION, AND FOR TOTAL EXPORTS $15,112 MILLION $34,116 MILLION.

RAW MATERIALS

WITH PROCESSING, RE-IMPORTED INTO HONG

FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE SURVEY, EXPORTS TO CHINA FOR OUTWARD PROCESSING REFER TO THE EXPORTING OF

OR THE SEMI-MANUFACTURES FROM HONG KONG TO CHINA FOR RESULTING PROCESSED GOODS BEING KONG.

SUBSEQUENTLY

/A SAMPLE