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TABLE 3: CHANGES IN RE-EXPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY

COMPARING DEC 1990 WITH DEC 1989

COMPARING JAN-DEC 1990 WITH JAN-DEC 1989

END-USE CATEGORY

UNIT

VALUE

VALUE

VOLUME

VALUE

UNIT VALUE

VOLUME

%

%

*

*

%

%

FOODSTUFFS

2

3

-1

*

1

-1

CONSUMER GOODS

36

3

32

32

4

27

RAW MATERIALS AND

SEMI-MANUFACTURES

12

1

10

3

4

FUELS

-62

49

-75

-9

10

-17

CAPITAL GOODS

25

1

21

15

2

13

ALL COMMODITIES ·

24

N

21

20

3

16

LESS THAN 0.5%

HONG KONG MOVES TOWARDS BEING THE GREATEST SERVICE CENTRE IN ASIA

CENTURY TO BE THE HONG KONG HAS TO PLAN AHEAD INTO THE NEXT

FOR THE REGION MOST EFFICIENT POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTRE

THE IT,

SECRETARY FOR WHICH NO ONE COULD SUBSTITUTE FOR

PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR GRAHAM BARNES, SAID THIS (SUNDAY) EVENING.

(HONG KONG ADDRESSING THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS

IF ONE SAW BRANCH) AT ITS ANNUAL DINNER, MR BARNES POINTED OUT THAT

AIRPORT PROJECTS ALL BECAME IT IN THIS LIGHT CLEARLY, THE PORT AND CRITICAL.

STEP BY STEP AND THE CHINA ITSELF, HE SAID, IS MODERNISING

TRANSPORT PEOPLE WHO GO THERE AND TRADE WITH IT NEED GREATLY IMPROVED AND SHIPPING FACILITIES.

OF

IN CHINA

"AT THE SAME TIME, WE ARE IN A POSITION IN WHICH ALMOST ANY OUR FUNCTIONS CAN OVER TIME BE SUBSTITUTED BY OTHERS EITHER OR ELSEWHERE.

/"THERE IS