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MONDAY, AUGUST 7,

1989

THE END-USE IN TABLE 3.

BY

9

RE-EXPORTS CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF

COMPARED WITH MAY 1988 ARE SHOWN CATEGORY FOR MAY 1989

MOST END-USE 1988, WITH MATERIALS HAND,

THE

AND

THE

A9 DEPICTED IN TABLE 3, THE RE-EXPORT VOLUME OF CATEGORIES

IN MAY 1989 COMPARED WITH MAY INCREASED PERCENTAGE INCREASES RANGING FROM 9 PER CENT FOR RAW SEMI-MANUFACTURES TO 90 PER CENT FOR FUELS. ON THE OTHER VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS OF FOODSTUFFS DECREASED BY 19 PER CENT.

MAY

PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS OF RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES AND

1989 COMPARED

WITH FOODSTUFFS BOTH INCREASED BY 8 PER CENT IN MAY 1988. RE-EXPORT PRICES OF CAPITAL GOODS ROSE BY 7 PER CENT: WHILE PER CENT THOSE OF CONSUMER GOODS AND FUELS ROSE BY 5 PER CENT AND 2 RESPECTIVELY.

ISSUE OF THE

AT THE BUILDING,

COPY.

FURTHER DETAILS ARE CONTAINED IN THE MAY' 1989

WHICH

ON SALE WILL BE NUMBERS" INDEX

GROUND FLOOR, GPO AUGUST 10 AT $2.50 PER

TRADE

PUBLICATIONS

"HONG KONG GOVERNMENT CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL

CENTRE, AROUND

ENQUIRIES REGARDING REGULAR SUBSCRIPTION TO THIS REPORT MAY DIRECTED ΤΟ THE INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT

BE

BUILDING,

1 BATTERY

PATH,

ENQUIRIES ON TRADE

DEPARTMENT (TEL. NO.:

INDEXES 5-8234918).

HONG KONG (TEL.

ΤΟ THE CENSUS AND

AT FRENCH MISSION AND NO.:

5-8428802)

STATISTICS

TABLE 1: INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP

COMPARING MAY 1989

WITH MAY 1988

COMPARING JAN-MAY 1989 WITH JAN-MAY 1988

COMMODITY GROUP

UNIT

UNIT

VALUE

VALUE

VOLUME

VALUE

VALUE

VOLUME

%

%

X

%

CLOTHING

2

1

6

1

5

TEXTILE FABRICS

10

*

10

6

-1

7

TEXTILE YARN AND

THREAD

13

2

10

17

1

15

TEXTILE MADE-UPS

AND RELATED

ARTICLES

8

-7

-12

6

-17

RADIOS OF ALL

KINDS

-48

-48

-45

-45

/ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

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