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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1989

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CANADA AND AUSTRALIA ALSO

INCREASED BY 9 PER CENT AND 5 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS. HOWEVER, THOSE TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. THE NETHERLANDS AND THE UNITED KINGDOM DECREASED BY PER CENT, 3 PER CENT AND 2 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. EXPORTS TO THE USA SHOWED NO CHANGE.

DOMESTIC

MAJOR SUPPLIERS SAME PERIOD IN

IMPORTS IN JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 FROM ALL INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS COMPARED WITH THOSE IN THE 1988. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM ITALY 1 +33 PER CENT), CHINA [+32 PER CENT). TAIWAN (+22 PER CENT). SINGAPORE (+22 PER CENT) AND THE USA +16 PER CENT)},

PER PER

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE USA, CANADA, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN AND SINGAPORE INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS. BY 57 CENT, 50 PER CENT, 47 PER CENT, 16 PER CENT,

41 PER CENT, 34 CENT AND 29 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. INCREASES IN VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WERE ALSO RECORDED FOR CHINA AND TAIWAN, EACH BY 20 PER CENT,

ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE ARE MEASURED AT CURRENT PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES BETWEEN THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON. A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF THE PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN SEPTEMBER 1989 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY DECEMBER.

THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS то HONG KONG'S MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

10 MAJOR

PER CENT); OFFICE (BY $ 1.118 MILLION

COMPARING JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1988. NOTABLE INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC" EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR CLOTHING (BY $3.659 MILLION OR MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT OR 11 PER CENT); TEXTILES (BY $1.076 MILLION OR 10 FER CENT) AND ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, AND CELLULOSE ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $841 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, DECREASES

WERE

RECORDED

FOR

MISCELLANEOUS

AND

APPARATUS

AND

MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY 31.141 MILLION OR 5 PER CRNT) TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING EQUIPMENT (BY $454 MILLION OR 4 PER CENT).

TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

EXPORTS OF THE

THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG'S 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.

COMPARING JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1988, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS WERE RECORDED IN ALL MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

THE MORE NOTABLE ONES WERE CLOTHING (BY 19,632 MILLION OR 44 PER CENT): TEXTILES (BY $9,089 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY 36.964 MILLION OR 31 PER CENT:: AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $6,840 MILLION OR 34 PER CENT).

/HOWEVER, DECREASES