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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1990

AIRBORNE

39 PER

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS OF RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS (BY $363 MILLION OR CENT); TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $186 MILLION OR 65 PER CENT); AND PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CONTROLLING APPARATUS (BY $120 MILLION OR 10 PER CENT).

INSTRUMENTS

AND

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY BY COUNTRY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF FROM THE U.S.A. (BY $741 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT) AND FROM MALAYSIA (BY $654 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT); TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN ROAD VEHICLES FROM THE U.S.A. (BY $550 MILLION OR 46 PER CENT) AND FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY $4 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT FROM JAPAN (BY $347 MILLION OR 35 PER CENT); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS MATERIALS FROM THE U.S.A. (BY $138 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT).

ON THE OTHER HAND, DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE IMPORTS OF RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS FROM FINLAND (BY $132 MILLION OR 57 PER CENT) AND FROM DENMARK (BY $110 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT); TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES FROM THE U.S.A.

(BY $188 MILLION OR 67 PER CENT); AND PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CONTROLLING INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS FROM JAPAN (BY $69 MILLION OR 20 PER CENT).

5.

AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS TO THE 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE

THE

HONG KONG'S AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS TO MOST MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1990 OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989. GROWTH WAS PARTICULARLY STRONG FOR THAILAND (BY 70 PER CENT).

(BY

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE ALSO RECORDED IN AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS ΤΟ SWITZERLAND (BY 38 PER CENT), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY 37 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (BY 29 PER CENT), TAIWAN (BY 24 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (BY 19 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (BY 17 PER CENT).

AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS OF THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 6.

ANALYSED BY COMMODITY, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF AIRBORNE RE-EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $984 MILLION OR 13 PER CENT); NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY $935 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT); CLOTHING (BY $861 MILLION OR 28 PER CENT); AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $609 MILLION OR 37 PER CENT).

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AND

HOWEVER, DECREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, AND WATCHES AND CLOCKS $158 MILLION OR 5 PER CENT); CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS $82 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT); AND GENERAL INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY EQUIPMENT AND MACHINE PARTS (BY $51 MILLION OR 32 PER CENT).

/ANALYSED BY