XN000022-1989-09-05 — Page 7

TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1989

6

HALF-YEAR ANALYS19 OF HK'S RE-EXPORT TRADE

WITH

MILLION IN THE HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS AMOUNTED TO $161,096 FIRST HALF OF 1989. A GROWTH OF 37 PER CENT IN VALUE AS COMPARED THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR. ACCORDING TO THE SUMMARY STATISTICS ON HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 ANALYSED BY MARKET AND

BY (TUESDAY)

THE CENSUS COUNTRY OF ORIGIN STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET

TODAY RELEASED

BY

AND

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO 10 MAJOR MARKETS GIVEN IN TABLE 1.

ARE

CHINA AND THE USA, THE TWO LARGEST MARKETS FOR HONG KONG'S EXPORTS, ACCOUNTED FOR 33 PER CENT AND 18 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY OF THE THE SHARES OF TOTAL VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989.

5 PER CENT JAPAN. TAIWAN AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA WERE 6 PER CENT. AND 4 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

RE-

1988, COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD OF

MORE THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED. WITH THE

REPUBLIC OF GERMANY INCREASES SIGNIFICANT

RECORDED IN THE FEDERAL

KINGDOM (+50 PER (+63 PER CENT), ITALY (+56 PER CENT). THE UNITED

PER CENT

JAPAN AND CENT), AUSTRALIA (+50 PER CENT), THE USA (+45 (+40 PER CENT).

THE REPUBLIC OF 19

RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA, SINGAPORE, TAIWAN AND KOREA ALSO INCREASED, BY 35 PER CENT, 28 PER CENT. 25 PER CENT AND PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

$13.512

THE

RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA. THE LARGEST MARKET. INCREASED BY MILLION OR 35 PER CENT IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 AS COMPARED WITH FIRST HALF OF 1988.

IN

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED

ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, TEXTILES IBY $2.633 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT);

THEREOF (BY $1,500 APPARATUS

AND ELECTRICAL PARTS AND APPLIANCES

SOUND RECORDING MILLION OR 45 PER CENT): AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND

REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1.211 MILLION OR 52 PER

AND CENT).

RESINS AND

ARTIFICIAL RECORDED IN WERE DECREASES HOWEVER. PLASTIC MATERIALS, AND CELLULOSE ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $352 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT) AND CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $174 OR 36 PER CENT).

MILLION

/RE-EXPORTS TO