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COMPARING JUNE 1989 WITH JUNE 1988. IMPORT PRICES OF ALL USE CATEGORIES INCREASED: FUELS (+8 PER CENT); CONSUMER GOODS (+5 CENT); FOODSTUFFS (+3 PER CENT); RAW MATERIALS AND (+3 PER CENT); AND CAPITAL GOODS (+2 PER CENT).

END-

PER

SEMI-MANUFACTURES

RE-EXPORTS

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE. UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF BY END-USE CATEGORY FOR JUNE 1989 COMPARED WITH JUNE 1988 ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.

AS DEPICTED IN TABLE 3 THE RE-EXPORT VOLUME OF FUELS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY BY 195 PER CENT, WHILE THOSE OF CONSUMER GOODS, CAPITAL BY 45 GOODS AND RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI-MANUFACTURES ALSO INCREASED, PER CENT, 19 PER CENT AND 10 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS OF FOODSTUFFS DECREASED BY 15 PER CENT.

AND MATERIALS

SEMI-MANUFACTURES PRICE OF RE-EXPORTS OF RAW

JUNE 1988. RE- INCREASED BY 7 PER CENT IN JUNE 1989 COMPARED WITH EXPORT PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS, CONSUMER GOODS AND CAPITAL GOODS ALL ROSE BY 6 PER CENT; WHILE THAT OF FUELS ROSE BY 5 PER CENT.

FURTHER DETAILS ARE CONTAINED IN THE JUNE 1989 ISSUE BE ON SALE "HONG KONG TRADE

NUMBERS" WHICH WILL INDEX

CONNAUGHT PUBLICATIONS

GPO BUILDING, GOVERNMENT

CENTRE, CENTRAL, AROUND SEPTEMBER 10 AT $2.50 PER COPY.

OF THE AT THE

PLACE,

BE

MISSION INDEXES

ENQUIRIES REGARDING REGULAR SUBSCRIPTION TO THIS REPORT MAY

AT FRENCH DIRECTED TO THE INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT BUILDING, HONG KONG (TEL.: 5-8428802) AND ENQUIRIES ON TRADE TO THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (TEL.: 5-8234918).

TABLE 1: INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY COMMODITY GROUP

COMPARING JUN 1989 WITH JUN 1988

COMPARING JAN-JUN 1889 WITH JAN-JUN 1988

COMMODITY GROUP

UNIT

UNIT

VALUE VALUE VOLUME

VALUE

VALUE

VOLUME

*

%%

น

%

CLOTHING

11

2

9

7

1

5

TEXTILE FABRICS

16

16

7

-1

8

TEXTILE YARN AND

THREAD

3

1

14

2

12

TEXTILE MADE-UPS

AND RELATED

ARTICLES

-11

-16

- 12

6

-17

RADIOS OF ALL

KINDS

-38

2

-39

- 44

-44

/ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS