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MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1991

RE-EXPORTS ΤΟ THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY RECORDED A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE OF $9,905 MILLION OR 73%. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RE-EXPORT VALUE WERE REGISTERED FOR CLOTHING (BY $2,972 MILLION OR 88%); AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $2,808 MILLION OR 139%). HOWEVER, A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN TEXTILE FIBRES AND THEIR WASTES (BY $322 MILLION OR 87%).

RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN GREW BY $4,770 MILLION OR 29%. THE RE- EXPORT VALUE OF TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES INCREASED DRASTICALLY THAT BY $2,669 MILLION OR 313% IN 1990 AS COMPARED WITH 1989 WHEREAS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF ALSO RECORDED AN INCREASE OF $792 MILLION OR 14%.

A DECREASE WAS HOWEVER REGISTERED FOR CRUDE VEGETABLE MATERIALS (BY $161 MILLION OR 13%).

ANIMAL

AND

RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

COUNTRIES RE-EXPORTS FROM 10 MAJOR

OF ORIGIN ARE GIVEN IN

TABLE 2.

GOODS FROM CHINA, JAPAN, TAIWAN, THE USA AND THE KOREA CONTRIBUTED 58%, 10%, 7%, 6% AND 3% RESPECTIVELY TO VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS THROUGH HONG KONG IN 1990.

OF REPUBLIC

THE TOTAL

1990 COMPARING

THE WITH 1989, RE-EXPORTS FROM MOST OF ORIGIN COUNTRIES REGISTERED INCREASES IN VALUE, PARTICULARLY CHINA (+28%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+25%) AND FRANCE (+22%),

KONG'S

MAJOR

FOR

RE-

CHINA CONTINUED TO BE THE LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG

IN EXPORTS

1990. A GROWTH OF 28% IN VALUE OR $52,139 MILLION OVER 1989 WAS RECORDED IN THE RE-EXPORTS ORIGINATING IN CHINA.

ARTICLES, GOODS (BY AND 29%);

AND

AMONGST GOODS ORIGINATING IN CHINA, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RE-EXPORT VALUE WERE RECORDED IN MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED INCLUDING MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING $12,702 MILLION OR 34%); CLOTHING (BY $10,563 MILLION OR

AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS EQUIPMENT (BY $7,919 MILLION OR 44%).

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

TEXTILE

METALLIFEROUS

HOWEVER, DECREASES IN RE-EXPORT VALUE WERE RECORDED IN FIBRES AND THEIR WASTES (BY $1,642 MILLION OR 49%); AND ORES AND METAL SCRAP (BY $557 MILLION OR 58%).

REMAINED

RE-

$3,282

JAPAN

KONG'S THE SECOND LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG EXPORTS IN 1990. COMPARED WITH 1989, THERE WAS AN INCREASE OF MILLION OR 8% IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS ORIGINATING IN JAPAN.

INCREASES SIGNIFICANT

IN RE-EXPORT VALUE WERE REGISTERED IN OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING

$713 EQUIPMENT (BY MILLION OR 31%); ROAD VEHICLES INCLUDING AIR CUSHION VEHICLES (BY $507 MILLION OR 23%); AND TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES (BY $473 MILLION OR 183%).

/DECREASES IN