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HOWEVER, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS WERE REGISTERED OTHER TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT (BY $674 MILLION OR 21%), AND CORK AND MANUFACTURES (BY $39 MILLION OR 2%).

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

FOR

WOOD

MAJOR

COMPARING JUNE 1991 WITH JUNE 1990, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS MOST MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED.

ΤΟ

RE-EXPORTS UNITED 18%

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF ΤΟ FRANCE, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, THE KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA, BY 69%, 57%, 49%, 31%, 25% AND RESPECTIVELY.

THOSE TO THE U.S.A., JAPAN AND TAIWAN INCREASED BY 12%, 12% AND

OF THE VALUE

RE-EXPORTS ΤΟ RESPECTIVELY.

SINGAPORE

DECREASED BY 19%.

6%

HOWEVER,

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1991 OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO MOST MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED.

1990,

RE-EXPORTS UNITED

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, CHINA, THE KINGDOM AND JAPAN, BY 78%, 49%, 44%, 34%, 28% AND 23% RESPECTIVELY,

REPUBLIC HOWEVER, THE

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN, THE U.S.A. AND THE OF KOREA INCREASED BY 17%, 15% AND 10% RESPECTIVELY. VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE DECREASED BY 11%.

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

OF THE

1990,

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1991 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR CLOTHING (BY $6,920 MILLION OR 34%); MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES (BY $5,537 MILLION OR 25%); TEXTILES (BY $4,876 23%); AND FOOTWEAR (BY $4,049 MILLION OR 69%).

MANUFACTURED MILLION OR

HOWEVER, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WERE RECORDED

THEREOF (BY CRUSTACEANS FISH,

AND MOLLUSCS, AND PREPARATIONS MILLION OR 8%), AND RAW HIDES, SKINS AND FURSKINS (BY $77 MILLION 19%).

IN

$155 OR

ALL THE TRADE STATISTICS DESCRIBED HERE ARE MEASURED AT CURRENT BETWEEN PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES THE PERIODS OF COMPARTSON.

A SEPARATE

ANALYSIS

OF THE PRICE AND

OF

VOLUME MOVEMENTS EXTERNAL TRADE IN JUNE 1991 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY SEPTEMBER 1991.

DETAILED STATISTICS ON TRADE VALUE BY COMMODITY AND BY ARE PUBLISHED IN TRADE STATISTICS REPORTS.

COUNTRY

/THE JUNE