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HK'S EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR APRIL RELEASED

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TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN APRIL 1990, AT $97,907 MILLION, GREW BY 5 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS AS COMPARED WITH APRIL 1989, ACCORDING TO APRIL 1990 RELEASED THE DETAILED FIGURES ON THE VALUE OF TRADE IN TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

OVER

OF DOMESTIC VALUE SAME THE

PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS DECREASED BY 6 PER CENT TO $16,407 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS ROSE BY 10 PER CENT TO $30,861 MILLION.

THE VALUE OF EXPORTS INCREASED BY 4 PER CENT TO $47,267 MILLION. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 6 PER CENT TO $50,640 MILLION.

1990,

THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JANUARY TO APRIL AT $360,197 MILLION, INCREASED BY 4 PER CENT AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989.

RE-

OF VALUE

DOMESTIC OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE EXPORTS DECREASED BY 4 PER CENT TO $62,867 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF EXPORTS INCREASED BY 10 PER CENT TO $114,009 MILLION.

THUS, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 5 PER $176,876 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 3 PER $183,321 MILLION.

CENT ΤΟ CENT TO

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

TO EXPORTS

10 MAJOR

COMPARING APRIL 1990 WITH APRIL 1989, DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO OF THE MAJOR MARKETS DECREASED IN VALUE TERMS.

SIGNIFICANT

DECREASE

MOST

DOMESTIC

CENT,

JAPAN,

OF WAS RECORDED FOR THE VALUE EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA AND CANADA, BY 30 PER

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO 26 PER CENT AND 21 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. THE USA, CHINA AND THE NETHERLANDS ALSO DECREASED IN VALUE TERMS BY 8 PER CENT, 6 PER CENT, 4 PER CENT AND 3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

PER CENT WAS THE VALUE OF

ON THE OTHER HAND, A SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH OF 55 RECORDED FOR THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO TAIWAN, DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE ALSO INCREASED BY 6 PER CENT.

1989, COMPARING JANUARY TO APRIL 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN

AUSTRALIA THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, CANADA, AND JAPAN DECREASED BY 24 PER CENT, 16 PER CENT, 16 PER CENT, AND 11 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE USA, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF THE NETHERLANDS AND CHINA ALSO DECREASED IN VALUE TERMS, CENT, 4 PER CENT, 3 PER CENT AND 1 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

GERMANY, BY 5

PER

HOWEVER, A SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH WAS RECORDED FOR THE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO TAIWAN AND SINGAPORE, BY 58 PER CENT AND CENT RESPECTIVELY.

VALUE

15

OF

PER

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