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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990

SUPPLIERS PERIOD IN

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IMPORT'S IN JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1989 FROM MOST MAJOR INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS COMPARED WITH THOSE IN THE SAME 1988. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM CHINA PER CENT), ITALY (+26 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+22 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+19

THE PER

AND

IMPORTS FROM CENT)

THE USA (+13 PER CENT). REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND JAPAN ALSO INCREASED, CENT, 5 PER CENT AND 3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

FEDERAL BY 6 PER

FEDERAL OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO THE

KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE USA, CANADA, THE UNITED

48 AND JAPAN INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS, BY 54 PER CENT,

AND 30 PER CENT PER CENT, 46 PER CENT, 41 PER CENT, 34 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. INCREASES WERE ALSO RECORDED FOR VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND CHINA, BY 27 PER CENT, 19 PER CENT, 14 PER CENT AND 12 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY,

AT CURRENT BETWEEN

ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE ARE MEASURED PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES

THE THE PERIODS

A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF OF COMPARISON. VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN NOVEMBER 1989 WILL BE IN EARLY FEBRUARY.

PRICE AND RELEASED

THE

IN CHANGES

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

KONG'S

10 MAJOR

COMPARING INCREASES (BY

JANUARY

TEXTILES

TO NOVEMBER 1989 WITH THE IN VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS $4,782 MILLION OR 8 PER CENT);

EQUIPMENT (BY $1,521 MILLION PROCESSING

$1,245 MILLION OR 9 PER (BY

CENT)

SAME PERIOD

IN

WERE REGISTERED OFFICE MACHINES

OR 12 PER ARTIFICIAL

FOR

AND

1988, CLOTHING AUTOMATIC DATA

CENT);

AND

RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, AND CELLULOSE ESTERS AND ETHERS (BY $986 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED AND ARTICLES (BY $1,654 MILLION OR 6 PER CENT) AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY 9997 MILLION OR 6 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 SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.

COMPARING

JANUARY

ARE

IN SAME PERIOD TO NOVEMBER 1989 WITH THE

ALL MAJOR IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS WERE RECORDED IN 1988, INCREASES COMMODITY DIVISIONS. THE MORE NOTABLE ONES WERE CLOTHING (BY $11,772 CENT); MILLION OR 41 PER CENT); TEXTILES (BY $9,499 MILLION OR 17 PER MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $8,255 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT) AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING AND EQUIPMENT (BY $7,118 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT).

APPARATUS

/HOWEVER, DECREASES