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FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1992

REGISTERED FOR

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RE-EXPORT VALUE WERE CLOTHING (BY $3,465 MILLION OR 54%); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $1,516 MILLION OR 35%).

HOWEVER, A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1,016 MILLION OR 21%).

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS то JAPAN RECORDED AN INCREASE OF $5,198 MILLION OR 21%.

FOR

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RE-EXPORT VALUE WERE REGISTERED CLOTHING (BY $1,101 MILLION OR 18%); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $768 MILLION OR 29%).

HOWEVER, A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN FISH, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS, AND PREPARATIONS THEREOF (BY $379 MILLION OR 27%).

1990.

RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN IN 1991 GREW BY $3,518 MILLION OR 17% OVER

THE

RE-EXPORT VALUE OF TOBACCO AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURES INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY BY $1,692 MILLION OR 48% IN 1991 AS COMPARED WITH 1990 WHEREAS THAT OF TEXTILES ALSO RECORDED AN INCREASE OF $499 MILLION OR 58%.

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DECREASE WAS HOWEVER REGISTERED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $917 MILLION OR 14%).

RE-EXPORTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

RE-EXPORTS FROM THE 10 MAJOR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN ARE GIVEN IN

TABLE 2.

GOODS FROM CHINA, JAPAN, TAIWAN, THE USA AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA CONTRIBUTED 59%, 11%, 8%, 5% AND 3% RESPECTIVELY TO THE TOTAL VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS THROUGH HONG KONG IN 1991.

COMPARING 1991 WITH 1990, RE-EXPORTS FROM MOST OF THE MAJOR ORIGIN COUNTRIES REGISTERED INCREASES IN VALUE, PARTICULARLY FOR TAIWAN (+38%), JAPAN (+35%) AND CHINA (+31%).

CHINA CONTINUED TO BE THE LARGEST SOURCE OF HONG KONG'S RE- EXPORTS IN 1991. A GROWTH OF 31% IN VALUE OR $75,279 MILLION OVER 1990 WAS RECORDED IN THE RE-EXPORTS ORIGINATING IN CHINA.

AMONGST GOODS ORIGINATING IN CHINA, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RE-EXPORT VALUE WERE RECORDED IN CLOTHING (BY $15,596 MILLION OR 34%); MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, INCLUDING MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $13, 798 MILLION OR 28%) AND FOOTWEAR (BY $9,670 MILLION OR 71%).

/HCWEVER, DECREASES