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1.

MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1992

HONG KONG'S EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY RELEASED

TOTAL

MERCHANDISE

TRADE

49% INCREASED BY

$135,045 MILLION,

THIS

YEAR,

AT

IN FEBRUARY

IN VALUE AS COMPARED WITH FEBRUARY LAST YEAR, ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

OF VALUE

DOMESTIC RE-EXPORTS

THE OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, EXPORTS INCREASED BY 22% TO 817,490 MILLION WHILE THAT OF ROSE BY 57% TO $49,381 MILLION.

IN

THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 46% TO $66,871 FEBRUARY 1992. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY 51% TO

MILLION.

MILLION $68,175

THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF SAME 1992, AT $244,128 MILLION, INCREASED BY 16% AS COMPARED WITH THE PERIOD IN 1991.

VALUE OF DOMESTIC OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE

RE-EXPORTS EXPORTS DECREASED BY 6% TO $31,655 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF INCREASED BY 25% TO $88,389 MILLION.

THE VALUE OF TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER,

MILLION. THE VALUE OF TO $120,044 TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 15% IMPORTS INCREASED BY 17% TO $124,084 MILLION.

FIGURES CAUTION SHOULD BE EXERCISED IN INTERPRETING THE TRADE

THE FLUCTUATIONS FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL MONTH IN ISOLATION, IN VIEW OF THAT MAY OCCUR FROM MONTH TO MONTH.

IN PARTICULAR, TRADE FIGURES FOR FEBRUARY AS WELL AS THOSE JANUARY ARE AFFECTED BY THE TIMING OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.

FOR

12 MONTHS ENDING EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF COMPARISON TO THE

THE VALUE OF FEBRUARY 1992 WITH THE 12 MONTHS ENDING FEBRUARY 1991, DOMESTIC EXPORTS SHOWED LITTLE CHANGE, AT $229,178 MILLION, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS WAS UP BY 28% TO $552,748 MILLION.

OF

TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE

IMPORTS TOTAL EXPORTS ROSE BY 18% TO $781,926 MILLION. THE VALUE OF

THE VALUE OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE INCREASED BY 20% TO $797,396 MILLION. TRADE INCREASED BY 19% TO $1,579,322 MILLION.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

10 MAJOR

FEBRUARY

1992 WITH

SUBSTANTIAL ΤΟ CHINA,

AND 25%

1991, FEBRUARY COMPARING INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS CANADA, U.S.A., SINGAPORE AND JAPAN, BY 64%, 47%, 31%, 26% RESPECTIVELY.

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL OF GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS, TAIWAN AND THE UNITED KINGDOM BY 24%, 5%, 5% AND 2% RESPECTIVELY.

REPUBLIC DECREASED

/COMPARING THE