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TUESDAY. EPTEMBER 5, 1989

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7

OR

TO RE-EXPORTS

THE USA. THE SECOND LARGEST MARKET FOR HONG INCREASED BY KON: 'S RE-EXPORTS.

$9.295 MILLION

45 FER CENT. COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED

INCLUDING MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES. TOYS, GAMES ARTICLES. GOODS (BY $2.218 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT); CLOTHING (BY $1.548

AND SOUND PER OR 38

CENT AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1.523 MILLION REPRODUCING APPARATUS CENTI.

AND SPORTING MILLION RECORDING AND OR 104 PER

HOWEVER. DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN MOLLUSCS. AND PREPARATIONS THEREOF (BY $111 MILLION OR 20 PER AND

TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES (BY $38 46 PER CENT).

FISH, CRUSTACEANS

AND

CENT): MILLION OR

RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN INCREASED BY $2,927 MILLION OR 40 PER CENT. ANALYSED BY COMMODITY. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING

(BY

MILLION $1.097

PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS. OR 102 PER CENT) AND EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS

NON-FERROUS $310 MILLION OR 75 PER CENT). A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN METALS (BY $100 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT).

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(BY

(BY

RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN RECORDED AN INCREASE OF $1.643 MILLION OR FOR ELECTRICAL PER

REGISTERED CENT. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE MACHINERY. APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF $400 MILLION OR 18 PER CENT): AND TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY #333

HOWEVER. A DECREASE WAS RECORDED MILLION OR 191 PER CENT). NON-FERROUS METALS (BY $65 MILLION ON 20 PER CENT).

IN

OR

$648

RE-EXPORTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA GREW BY 31.074 MILLION 19 FER CENT. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN TEXTILES (BY MILLION OR 44 PER CENT): AND TEXTILE FIBRES (OTHER THAN WOOL TOPS) AND

CENT). $144

A MILLION OR 28 PER THEIR

DECREASE WAS WASTES (BY REGISTERED FOR NON-FERROUS METALS (BY #319 MILLION OR 64 PER CENT),

RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

2.

RE-EXPORTS FROM 10 MAJOR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN ARE GIVEN IN TABLE

REPUBLIC OF

GOODS FROM CHINA, JAPAN, TAIWAN. THE USA AND THE KOREA CONTRIBUTED 51 PER CENT. 13 PER CENT, 8 PER CENT. 7 PER CENT AND 4 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY TO THE TOTAL VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS THROUGH KONG IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989.

HONG

1988,

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 WITH THE FIRST HALF OF ALL THE MAJOR ORIGIN COUNTRIES SUPPLIED MORE IN VALUE TERMS TO HONG CENT 1. TAIWAN KONG FOR RE-EXPORTS. PARTICULARLY SINGAPORE (+69 PER (+54 PER CENT). CHINA (+50 PER CENT). FRANCE (+47 PER CENT) USA (+31

PER CENT).

AND THE

RE-EXPORTS

ORIGINATING IN JAPAN. THE GERMANY ALSO INCREASED, BOTH BY 29 PER CENT.

FEDERAL REPUBLIC

OF

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