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RE-EXPORT VALUE

WERE

RECORDED

GENERAL

MILLION $143

IN DECREASES IN INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND MACHINE PARTS (BY $243 OR 13%); AND MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY MILLION OR 6%).

RE-EXPORTS ORIGINATING IN TAIWAN INCREASED BY $3,322 MILLION OR TEXTILES 12% IN VALUE TERMS IN 1990 OVER 1989, PARTICULARLY THOSE OF

AUTOMATIC DATA (BY $2,381 MILLION OR 28%); AND OFFICE MACHINES AND PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $571 MILLION OR 78%).

VALUE

WAS

IN RE-EXPORT HOWEVER, A DECREASE MACHINERY SPECIALISED FOR PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES (BY $964 37%).

IN RECORDED

MILLION OR

MILLION RE-EXPORTS ORIGINATING IN THE USA INCREASED BY $2,165

RE-EXPORT VALUE OR 10%. COMMODITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN

41%); INCLUDED TOBACCO AND TOBACOO MANUFACTURES (BY $1,128 MILLION OR AND NON-METALLIC MINERAL MANUFACTURES (BY $359 MILLION OR 52%).

HOWEVER,

A

DECREASE IN

RE-EXPORT

VALUE

WAS RECORDED IN

INORGANIC CHEMICALS (BY $147 MILLION OR 47%).

+

INCREASED BY

RE-EXPORTS ORIGINATING IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA $333 MILLION OR 3%, PARTICULARLY THOSE OF TEXTILES (BY $351 MILLION OR 9%); AND LEATHER, LEATHER MANUFACTURES AND DRESSED FURSKINS (BY $150 MILLION OR 82%).

GENERAL HOWEVER, A DECREASE IN RE-EXPORT VALUE WAS RECORDED IN INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT, AND MACHINE PARTS (BY $241 MILLION OR 61%).

FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING THE ABOVE RE-EXPORT PUBLISHED IN THE "HONG KONG EXTERNAL

STATISTICS ARE 1990" NOW GROUND

TRADE, DECEMBER

AVAILABLE

PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, FOR SALE AT THE GOVERNMENT FLOOR, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AT $27 PER COPY.

ENQUIRIES

MAY BE DIRECTED

DEPARTMENT ON TEL. 823 4915.

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THE

CENSUS

AND STATISTICS

TABLE 1 RE-EXPORTS TO 10 MAJOR MARKETS

MAJOR MARKET

JAN-DEC 1990

(HKD MN.)

JAN-DEC 1989 (HKD MN.)

INCREASE/

DECREASE (HKD MN.)

PERCENTAGE CHANGE ( % )

CHINA

110,908

USA

87,753

103,492 72,033

7.416

+

7

+ 15,720

+ 22

JAPAN

24,376

22,268

2,108

+ 9

F.R.OF GERMANY

23,406

13,502

9,905

+ 73

TAIWAN

21,248

16,478

4,770

+ 29

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

13,011

13,279

268

2

SINGAPORE

12.573

11,029

1,544

+ 14

UNITED KINGDOM

12,107

8,918

3.188

+ 36

CANADA

6,527

5,413

1,114

+ 21

FRANCE

6,415

4.543

1,872

+ 41

/TABLE 2