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SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1990

COMPARING JANUARY 1990 WITH JANUARY 1989, MORE NOTABLE INCREASES IN RE-EXPORTS IN VALUE TERMS WERE REGISTERED FOR CLOTHING (BY $1,198 MILLION OR 45 PER CENT); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $1,051 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT); FOOTWEAR (BY $427 MILLION OR 80 PER ('ENT) AND TRAVEL GOODS. HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS (BY $240 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT).

DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR TEXTILE FIBRES AND THEIR WASTES (BY $278 MILLION OR 50 PER CENT) AND TEXTILES (BY $50 MILLION OR 2 PER CENT).

TABLE 6 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS BY MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISION.

DETAILED STATISTICS ON TRADE VALUE BY COMMODITY AND BY COUNTRY ARR PUBLISHED IN TRADE STATISTICS REPORTS.

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TABLE

MAJOR MARKET

DOMESTIC EXPOPTS TO 10 MAJOR MARKETS

JANUARY

1990 (HKD MN.)

JJANUARY

1989

INCREASE

PERCENTAGE INCREASE

(HKD MN.) (HKD MN.}

( % )

U.S.A.

5,277

5,184

+ 93

+

'ILINA

2,752

3,205

453

I

2

14

F.R. OF GERMANY

1,313

1,356

43

I

.K.

957

1,208

-

251

- 21

JAPAN

897

966

68

I

CANADA

524

577

53

SINGAPORE

472

479

7

1

TAIWAN

443

289

+ 154

+ 53

NETHERLANDS

384

408

24

6

FRANCE

334

306

28

+

/TABLE 2