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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1993

COMPARING 1992 WITH 1991, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE REGISTERED FOR

AUTOMATIC DATA OFFICE MACHINES AND

$1,631 PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $2,238 MILLION OR 12.2%); CLOTHING (BY

APPLIANCES, MILLION OR 2.2%); AND ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $887MILLION OR 4.6%).

WERE

AND

AND REPRODUCING OR 14.4%); MAINLY JEWELLERY,

HOWEVER, DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS RECORDED FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING

AND EQUIPMENT APPARATUS

(BY

MILLION $2,185 MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING OF GOLDSMITHS' AND SILVERSMITHS' WARES (BY $1,424 MILLION OR 6.0%).

THE VALUE

BILLION AND

OF RE-EXPORTS AND IMPORTS, AT $691 $955 BILLION RESPECTIVELY IN 1992, RECORDED SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES OVER 1991, BY 29.2% AND 22.6% RESPECTIVELY.

DECEMBER FOR AND MILLION

THAT OF IMPORTS,

$90,232 MILLION, WHICH INCREASES OF 22.5% AND 17.2% RESPECTIVELY OVER DECEMBER 1991.

1992, THE VALUE OF

WAS RE-EXPORTS

$64,284 REPRESENT

WHOLE WAS THE TOTAL VALUE OF EXTERNAL TRADE FOR 1992 AS A $1,880 BILLION, 21.7% ABOVE THAT OF 1991. FOR DECEMBER 1992, THE TOTAL VALUE OF EXTERNAL TRADE WAS $176 BILLION, AN INCREASE OF THAT IN DECEMBER 1991.

CHANGES

IN THE

THE VALUE OF IMPORTS SUPPLIERS ARE SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.

16.1% OVER

FROM

THE

10 MAJOR

WITH 1991, THE INCREASES IN SUPPLIERS WERE: GERMANY

THE (+31.7%),

VALUE

OF JAPAN OF KOREA

(+24.0%), CHINA

(+20.8%),

UNITED

STATES

1992 COMPARING IMPORTS FROM THE MAJOR {+30.4%), MALAYSIA (+30.1%), ITALY (+26.4%), THE REPUBLIC

THE (+26.4%), (+20.0%), TAIWAN (+16.7%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+16.2%).

SINGAPORE

INCREASES

WERE

1991. DECEMBER 1992 WITH DECEMBER COMPARING

MAJOR SUPPLIERS: ALSO RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL THE SINGAPORE (+35.2%), JAPAN ( +31.8%), ITALY (+30.3%), MALAYSIA (+28.7%),

THE UNITED KINGDOM THE UNITED STATES (+27.9%), GERMANY (+24.8%),

AND TAIWAN (+20.0%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+17.6%), CHINA (+8.6%) (+8.5%).

TABLE 4 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS OF THE MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

10

IMPORTS AND APPLIANCES,

OR

22.7%);

ROAD

MANUFACTURED

COMPARING 1992 WITH 1991, INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF WERE REGISTERED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND

PARTS ELECTRICAL

THEREOF (BY $17,644 MILLION VEHICLES (BY $16,653 MILLION OR 98.0%); MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MAINLY BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (BY $16,230 MILLION OR 29.1%); RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $15,535 OR 25.9%); CLOTHING (BY $13,571 MILLION OR 20.4%); AND OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $10,181 MILLION OR 42.9%).

AND

SOUND MILLION

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

/COMPARING 1992