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HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $107 MILLION OR 48 PER CENT); CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $95 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT) AND ESSENTIAL OILS AND PERFUME MATERIALS, TOILET, POLISHING AND CLEANSING

AIRBORNE PREPARATIONS (BY $29 MILLION OR 6 PER CENT). THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 6.

$412

RE-EXPORTS

ΤΟ THE USA

MILLION

OR

OF

(BY

66

ANALYSED BY COUNTRY WITHIN COMMODITY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS OF CLOTHING $1,333 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT) AND TO JAPAN (BY PER CENT); NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES ΤΟ THAILAND (BY $599

OR MILLION MILLION OR 177 PER CENT) AND TO THE USA (BY $486 CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND $653 MILLION OR GOODS, AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO JAPAN (BY CENT); AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF TO TAIWAN (BY $753 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE

RECORDED IN

38 PER OPTICAL

78 PER

METALLIFEROUS ORES AND OR 83 METAL SCRAP TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (BY $74 MILLION

PER CENT); PER CENT) AND TO THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $56 MILLION OR 57

OR 41 CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS TO TAIWAN (BY $80 MILLION

POLISHING PER CENT) AND ESSENTIAL OILS AND PERFUME MATERIALS; TOILET, AND CLEANSING PREPARATIONS TO TAIWAN (BY $92 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT).

FURTHER DETAILS ARE PUBLISHED IN THE "HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE, DECEMBER 1989" NOW AVAILABLE AT GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, CENTRAL AT $17.50 PER GROUND FLOOR, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, COPY.

ENQUIRIES MAY BE DIRECTED ΤΟ THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ON TEL. 823 4915.

TABLE 1: AIRBORNE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR MARKETS

JAN-DEC

1989

MAJOR MARKET

(HKD MN.)

JAN-DEC

1988 (HKD MN.)

INCREASE

(HKD MN.}

PERCENTAGE INCREASE

(%)

USA

27,417

27,242

174

+ 1

JAPAN

7.351

6,281

+1,070

+17

F.R. OF GERMANY

5,976

5,427

+

548

+10

UK

3,779

3,794

15

SINGAPORE

2,818

2,510

308

+12

CANADA

2,045

1,818

+

226

+12

TAIWAN

1,896

1,320

+

575

+44

SWITZERLAND

1,652

1.581

70

+ 4

/NETHERLANDS