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THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1990

IN 1989, COMPARING JANUARY TO MAY 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR TOBACCO CENT); OFFICE AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $549 MILLION OR 78 MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $334 MILLION OR 6 PER CENT); CLOTHING (BY $208 MILLION OR 1 PER CENT); AND TEXTILES $192 MILLION OR 3 PER CENT).

DECREASES

OF THE VALUE IN

(BY

WERE

HOWEVER,

DOMESTIC EXPORTS RECORDED FOR MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $547 MILLION OR 5 AND APPLIANCES AND PER CENT) AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY APPARATUS ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $500 MILLION OR 7 PER CENT).

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM 10 MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.

COMPARING MAY 1990 WITH MAY 1989, THE VALUE OF MOST OF THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS INCREASED.

SIGNIFICANT

FROM THE

INCREASES

IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS

IMPORTS FROM

WERE RECORDED 25 PER USA, CHINA, SINGAPORE AND TAIWAN, BY 46 PER CENT,

THOSE RESPECTIVELY.

FROM THE CENT, 20 PER CENT AND 18 PER CENT

AND REPUBLIC OF KOREA, SWITZERLAND, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY ITALY ALSO INCREASED BY 10 PER CENT, 8 PER CENT, 6 PER CENT AND 4 CENT IN VALUE TERMS RESPECTIVELY,

PER

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM AND JAPAN DECREASED BY 5 PER CENT AND 4 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THE

AND

COMPARING JANUARY TO MAY 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989, VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE USA AND CHINA INCREASED BY 19 PER CENT

SINGAPORE ITALY, 17

THOSE FROM SWITZERLAND, PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. AND TAIWAN ALSO INCREASED BY 9 PER CENT, 6 PER CENT, 5 PER CENT AND PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

3

JAPAN, TERMS

HOWEVER, IMPORTS FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM DECREASED IN VALUE BY 7 PER CENT, 6 PER CENT, 6 PER CENT AND 3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

TABLE 4 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS OF MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

THE

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

WERE RECORDED FOR THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASES IN CONSIDERABLE

MISCELLANEOUS CENT); OR 22 PER CLOTHING (BY

MILLION $3,380

22 PER $2,903 MILLION OR MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT (BY $2,242 MILLION OR 265 PER CENT); (BY $1,185 MILLION OR 4 PER CENT).

CENT); OTHER TEXTILES AND

HOWEVER, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS WERE IRON AND STEEL (BY $1,465 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT) AND TEXTILE AND THEIR WASTES (BY $1,011 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT).

REGISTERED FOR FIBRES

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S 10 MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 5.

MAJOR

/THE VALUE