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FRIDAY, AUT 24, 1990

CALENDAR YEAR TO-DATE

JAN-JUL

1990

HK$ MN.

JAN-JUL

1989 HK$ MN.

INCREASE

HK$ MN.

%

DOM STIC EXPORTS

120,948

123,162

-2,214

-1.8

(% OF TOTAL EXPORTS)

(35.5%)

(39.0%)

RE-EXPORTS

219,290

192,527

26,763

13.9

TOTAL EXPORTS

340,238

315,689

24,549

7.8

IMPORTS

346,312

325,347

20,965

6.4

TRADE BALANCE

-6,074

-9,658

3,584

AUG 89 TO

LAST 12 MONTHS

JUL 90

HK$ MN.

AUG 88 TO

JUL 89 HK$ MN.

INCREASE

HK$ MN.

IMPORTS

DOMESTIC EXPORTS

RE-EXPORTS

TOTAL EXPORTS

TRADE BALANCE

221,890

225,072

-3,182

-1.4

373,169

326,637

46,532

14.2

595,059

551,709

43,350

7.9

583,747

558,060

25,687

4.6

11,312

-6,351

17,663

0

CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES FOR JULY 1990

* * * * *

THE

CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES (CPI) FOR JULY 1990.

TODAY

PUBLISHED THE

THE CPI(A) (OCT. 84 - SEPT. 85 = 100) FOR JULY 1990 142.4, WAS 9.4 PER CENT HIGHER THAN IN JULY 1989.

Į

STOOD AT

THIS WAS HIGHER THAN THE CORRESPONDING RATES OF INCREASE OF 9.3 PER CENT IN MAY AND 9.1 PER CENT IN JUNE.

THE CPI(B) FOR JULY 1990 STOOD

AT

142.2, WAS 9.5 PER CENT

OF THE CORRESPONDING RATES

INCREASE

HIGHER THAN IN JULY LAST YEAR. IN MAY AND JUNE WERE BOTH 9.3 PER CENT.

THE CPI(A) AND THE CPI(B) ARE BASED ON THE EXPENDITURE PATTERNS OF 50 PER CENT AND 30 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, OF URBAN HOUSEHOLDS HONG KONG, WHICH WERE DERIVED FROM THE 1984/85 HOUSEHOLD SURVEY.

IN

EXPENDITURE

$2,000

AND

THE CPI(A) REFERS TO HOUSEHOLDS SPENDING BETWEEN $6,499 A MONTH AT THAT TIME AND THE CPI(B) BETWEEN $6,500 AND $9,999 A MONTH.

/HOWEVER, IT

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