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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1990

HK'S EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR JULY 1990

MILLION,

TOTAL

MERCHANDISE

TRADE

IN JULY 1990

STOOD

AT

$111,083 VALUE TERMS AS FIGURES ON THE THE CENSUS

REPRESENTING A GROWTH OF 10 PER CENT IN COMPARED WITH JULY 1989, ACCORDING TO THE DETAILED VALUE OF TRADE IN JULY 1990 RELEASED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

VALUE OF DOMESTIC OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE

RE- EXPORTS DECREASED BY 3 PER CENT TO $20,409 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS ROSE BY 15 PER CENT TO $36,194 MILLION.

THE VALUE OF EXPORTS INCREASED BY 8 PER CENT TO $56,603 MILLION. IMPORTS INCREASED BY 12 PER CENT TO $54,479 MILLION.

JULY 1990,

THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN JANUARY TO AT $686,550 MILLION, INCREASED BY 7 PER CENT AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989.

OVER THE

VALUE OF DOMESTIC PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE SAME EXPORTS DECREASED BY 2 PER CENT TO $120,947 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF RE- EXPORTS INCREASED BY 14 PER CENT TO $219,290 MILLION.

THUS, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 8 PER $340,238 MILLION. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 6 PER $346,312 MILLION.

CENT ΤΟ CENT ΤΟ

THE CHANGES IN THE

VALUE

OF

DOMESTIC

TO EXPORTS

10

MAJOR

MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

THE

VALUE OF DOMESTIC OF GERMANY

COMPARING JULY 1990 WITH JULY 1989, EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE, CHINA, TAIWAN, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC AND THE NETHERLANDS INCREASED BY 19 PER CENT, 10 PER CENT, 9 PER CENT, 9 PER CENT AND 7 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

ΤΟ CANADA, THE USA,

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS JAPAN AND THE UNITED KINGDOM DECREASED BY 20 PER CENT, 12 PER CENT, 11 PER CENT AND 9 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

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

UNITED

AND KINGDOM

CANADA EXPORTS TO THE DOMESTIC OF DECREASED BY 18 PER CENT AND 15 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THE VALUE

FRANCE ALSO DECREASED

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO JAPAN, THE USA AND IN VALUE TERMS BY 9 PER CENT, 6 PER CENT AND 5 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

OF 22 PER

HOWEVER, SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THE VALUE DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO TAIWAN AND SINGAPORE, BY 44 PER CENT AND CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CHINA AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY INCREASED BY 5 PER CENT AND 4 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

/TABLE 2