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SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1990

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE USA, CANADA, SINGAPORE AND TAIWAN, BY 46 PER CENT, 24 PER CENT, 22 PER CENT, 21 PER CENT AND 21 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THOSE TO FRANCE, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND CHINA ALSO INCREASED IN VALUE TERMS, BY 15 PER CENT, 11 PER CENT AND 8 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND JAPAN DECREASED BY 14 PER CENT AND 8 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1990 OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989, RE-EXPORTS ΤΟ THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, FRANCE, CANADA, THE USA, TAIWAN, SINGAPORE AND THE

UNITED KINGDOM INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS, BY 51 PER CENT, 32 PER CENT, 28 PER CENT, 28 PER CENT, 24 PER CENT, 24 PER CENT AND 20 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THOSE TO JAPAN INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS. HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO CHINA AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA BOTH DECREASED BY 4 PER CENT.

TABLE 6 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS OF THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989. CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $5,940 MILLION OR 36 PER CENT); CLOTHING (BY $4,622 MILLION OR 29 PER CENT); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $3,157 MILLION

26 PER CENT); AND TEXTILES (BY $1,160 MILLION OR 6 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WERE RECORDED FOR TEXTILE FIBRES AND THEIR WASTES (BY $1,299 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT) AND MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $898 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT).

ALL THE TRADE STATISTICS DESCRIBED HERE ARE MEASURED AT CURRENT PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES BETWEEN THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON.

A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF THE PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN JUNE 1990 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY SEPTEMBER 1990.

DETAILED STATISTICS ON TRADE VALUE BY COMMODITY AND BY COUNTRY ARE PUBLISHED IN TRADE STATISTICS REPORTS. THE JUNE 1990 ISSUE OF THE "HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE" WITH DETAILED ANALYSES ON IMPORTS, EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS IN JUNE 1990 WILL BE AVAILABLE ON SALE AROUND AUGUST 16 AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AT GROUND FLOOR, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AT $27 PER COPY.

BE ENQUIRIES REGARDING REGULAR SUBSCRIPTION TO THIS REPORT MAY DIRECTED ΤΟ THE INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT AT FRENCH MISSION BUILDING, 1 BATTERY PATH, HONG KONG (TEL. NO. 842 8802) AND ENQUIRIES ON TRADE STATISTICS TO THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (TEL. 823 4915).

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