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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1990

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AIRBORNE IMPORT OF NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY $1,485 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT); TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES (BY $1,261 MILLION OR 86 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1,163 MILLION OR 4 PER CENT); AND CLOTHING (BY $1,129 MILLION OR 36 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS (BY $350 MILLION OR 23 PER CENT); INORGANIC CHEMICALS (BY $89 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT) AND PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CONTROLLING INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS (BY $81 MILLION OR 4 PER CENT).

AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS ARE SHOWN IN

TABLE 4.

OR

ANALYSED BY COUNTRY WITHIN COMMODITY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES FROM BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG (BY $537 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT) AND FROM INDIA (BY $465 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT); TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES FROM THE USA (BY $1,289 MILLION 128 PER CENT) AND FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $32 MILLION OR 79 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF FROM THE USA (BY $846 MILLION OR 15 PER CENT); AND CLOTHING FROM ITALY (BY $507 MILLION OR CENT).

47 PER

IMPORTS OR 65 CENT);

OR 26

ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE OF RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS FROM CHINA (BY $167 MILLION PER CENT) AND FROM DENMARK (BY $120 MILLION OR 21 PER INORGANIC CHEMICALS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $117 MILLION PER CENT); AND PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CONTROLLING INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (BY $29 MILLION OR 18 PER CENT).

AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE DEPICTED IN

TABLE 5.

HONG KONG'S AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE IN 1989 OVER 1988. THE GROWTH WAS PARTICULARLY STRONG FOR THAILAND (+145 PER CENT), JAPAN (+41 PER CENT), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+40 PER CENT), BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG (+38 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+35 PER CENT) THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+25 PER CENT) AND THE USA (+20 PER CENT).

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AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN, THE SECOND LARGEST MARKET, ALSO INCREASED BY 15 PER CENT IN VALUE.

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, MORE SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR CLOTHING (BY

(BY $2,635 MILLION OR 50 PER CENT); NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY $2,000 MILLION OR 43 PER CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $1, 659 MILLION OR 33 PER CENT); AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $1,240 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT).

/HOWEVER, DECREASES