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HOWEVER, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS WERE REGISTERED TEXTILE FIBRES AND THEIR WASTES (BY $1,590 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT), AND IRON AND STEEL (BY $1,270 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT).

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

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO ALL THE MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED VALUE TERMS IN OCTOBER 1990 OVER OCTOBER 1989.

IN

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS то THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, TAIWAN, CHINA AND JAPAN, BY 102 PER CENT, 61 PER CENT, 60 PER CENT, 42 PER CENT, 32 PER CENT AND 23 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THOSE TO SINGAPORE, THE USA, CANADA AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA INCREASED BY 14 PER CENT, 12 PER CENT, 9 PER CENT AND 4 PER CENT

RESPECTIVELY.

COMPARING JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1990 OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, FRANCE, THE UNITED KINGDOM, TAIWAN, CANADA, THE USA AND SINGAPORE INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY, BY 61 PER CENT, 37 PER CENT, 31 PER CENT, 28 PER CENT, 23 PER CENT, 22 PER CENT AND 16 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THOSE TO JAPAN AND CHINA INCREASED BY 4 PER CENT AND 3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY, WHILE THOSE TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA DECREASED BY 3

CENT.

PER:

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

COMPARING JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1990 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989, CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $10,547 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT); CLOTHING (BY $8,159 MILLION OR 26 PER CENT); TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $6,626 MILLION OR 30 PER CENT); AND TEXTILES (BY $2,560 MILLION OR 7 PER CENT).

HOWEVER, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WERE RECORDED IN TEXTILE FIBRES AND THEIR WASTES (BY $1,831 MILLION OR 42 PER CENT), AND MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $967 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT).

AS FROM OCTOBER 1990, STATISTICS ON HONG KONG'S TRADE WITH THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY REFER TO THE UNIFIED GERMANY.

TO.

WHERE PAST DATA ARE REFERRED

THE TRADE VALUES OF THE PREVIOUS FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ARE ADDED TOGETHER TO ENSURE COMPARABILITY WITH THE CURRENT MONTH FIGURES.

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 OCTOBER 1990 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY JANUARY 1991.

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