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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1989

ANALYSED BY COUNTRY WITHIN COMMODITY,

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES

WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES BELGIUM AND FROM INDIA (BY $755 MILLION OR 65 PER CENT) AND FROM

ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, LUXEMBOURG (BY $393 MILLION OR 39 PER CENT); APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF FROM THE USA (BY $527 MILLION OR 21 PER CENT) AND FROM JAPAN (BY $384 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT: TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES FROM THE USA

MANUFACTURED AND MISCELLANEOUS CENT); $1,025 MILLION OR 567 PER

AND SILVERSMITHS' ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' WARES, AND OTHER PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS FROM THE USA (BY $228 MILLION OR 58 PER CENT).

(BY

IMPORTS ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE OF RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS FROM CHINA (BY $193 MILLION OR 82 PER CENTI AND FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $26 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT); INORGANIC CHEMICALS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $37 MILLION OR 17 PER

(EXCLUDING MINERALS CRUDE FERTILIZERS AND CENT}

CRUDE PETROLEUM AND PRECIOUS STONES) FROM THE IRISH REPUBLIC (BY $5 OR 100 PER CENT).

AND

COAL.

MILLION

AIRBORNE

TABLE 3.

RE-EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE

DEPICTED

IN

GROWTH

INCREASED

THE

HONG KONG'S AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS IN VALUE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1989 OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1988.

( +123 PËR

THE CENT), STRONG IN THAILAND WAS PARTICULARLY

(+54 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+56 PER CENT), JAPAN FEDERAL BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG (+31 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+30 PER CENT), REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+25 PER CENT) AND CHINA (+24 PER CENT).

AND TAIWAN, THE TOP TWO MARKETS AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS TO THE USA ALSO INCREASED. BY 19 PER CENT AND 17 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN VALUE.

VALUE

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, MORE SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN THE OF AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR CLOTHING BY $1,126 MILLION APPLIANCES AND OR 56 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND

OR

PER CENT); 13 MILLION (BY THEREOF

$833 PARTS ELECTRICAL

AND PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS,

NON-METALLIC WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $779 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT); AND MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY $724 MILLION OR 33 PER CENT).

ANIMAL

AND

FOR CRUDE REGISTERED WERE HOWEVER, DECREASES

33 PER CENT); TRANSPORT (BY $133 MILLION OR VEGETABLE MATERIALS EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES (BY 361 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT) AND RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS (BY $16 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT).

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES ANALYSED BY COUNTRY WITHIN COMMODITY, WERE REGISTERED FOR AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS OF CLOTHING TO THE $521 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT) AND TO JAPAN (BY $174 MILLION OR 96 PER ELECTRICAL

AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND CENT);

ΤΟ THEREOF PARTS

TAIWAN (BY $345 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT)

PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, (BY $285 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT); SINGAPORE

CLOCKS TO AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND WATCHES AND EQUIPMENT

MINERAL AND NON-METALLIC (BY JAPAN

MILLION OR 83 PER CENT); $296 MANUFACTURES TO THAILAND (BY $183 MILLION OR 111 PER CENT),

USA (BY

ΤΟ

/HOWEVER, DECREASES