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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1990

HOWEVER, A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR FISH, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS, AND PREPARATIONS THEREOF (BY $408 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN INCREASED BY $4,851 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR CLOTHING (BY $2,693 MILLION OR 84 PER CENT); AND PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS; WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $661 MILLION OR 66 PER CENT).

A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR IRON AND STEEL (BY $210 MILLION 69 PER CENT).

OR

OR

RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN RECORDED AN INCREASE OF $2,348 MILLION 17 PER CENT. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $889 MILLION OR 19 PER CENT); AND TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $333 MILLION OR 64 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR NON-FERROUS $153 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT).

METALS (BY

RE-EXPORTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA GREW BY $1,515 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR TEXTILES (BY AND $638 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT); AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $219 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT).

A DECREASE WAS REGISTERED FOR NON-FERROUS METALS (BY $480 MILLION OR 65 PER CENT).

RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

COUNTRIES RE-EXPORTS FROM 10 MAJOR

OF ORIGIN ARE

GIVEN

IN

TABLE 2.

GOODS FROM CHINA, JAPAN, TAIWAN, THE USA AND KOREA CONTRIBUTED 54 PER CENT, 11 PER CENT, 8 PER AND 3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY TO THE TOTAL VALUE OF HONG KONG IN 1989.

THE

REPUBLIC OF CENT, 6 PER CENT RE-EXPORTS THROUGH

COMPARING 1989 WITH 1988, MOST OF THE MAJOR ORIGIN COUNTRIES SUPPLIED MORE IN VALUE TERMS ΤΟ HONG KONG FOR RE-EXPORTS, PARTICULARLY SINGAPORE (+84 PER CENT) AND CHINA (+43 PER CENT).

CHINA CONTINUED TO BE THE LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS IN 1989. A GROWTH OF 43 PER CENT IN VALUE OR $56,746 MILLION OVER 1988 WAS RECORDED IN THE RE-EXPORTS ORIGINATING IN CHINA.

AMONGST GOODS ORIGINATING IN CHINA, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE

MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING RECORDED IN

MAINLY OR BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $13,583 MILLION

$12,166 MILLION OR 51 PER 57 PER CENT); CLOTHING (BY

CENT); AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $7,987 MILLION OR 80 PER CENT).

/HOWEVER, DECREASES

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