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TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1993

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE, UNIT VALUE AND VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 3.

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COMPARING MAY 1993 WITH MAY 1992 THE VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS OF FUELS AND CAPITAL GOODS GREW SUBSTANTIALLY BY 91% AND 35% RESPECTIVELY. THAT OF CONSUMER GOODS; RAW MATERIALS AND SEMI- MANUFACTURES; AND FOODSTUFFS REGISTERED INCREASES OF 18%, 7% AND 4% RESPECTIVELY.

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF RE-EXPORTS OF CAPITAL GOODS; FUELS AND CONSUMER GOODS INCREASED BY 2.7%, 2.5% AND 1.0% RESPECTIVELY.

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ON THE OTHER HAND, THE RE-EXPORT PRICES OF RAW MATERIALS SEMI-MANUFACTURES; AND FOODSTUFFS DECREASED BY 3.4% AND 1.0% RESPECTIVELY.

DETAILS OF THE ABOVE STATISTICS ARE PUBLISHED IN THE MAY ISSUE OF THE "HONG KONG TRADE INDEX NUMBERS"

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1993

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TABLE 1 : CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY GROUP

COMPARING MAY 1993 COMPARING JAN-MAY 1993

WITH MAY 1992

WITH JAN-MAY 1992

UNIT

COMMODITY GROUP

VALUE

VALUE VOLUME

%%

VALUE

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UNIT VALUE VOLUME

%

%

CLOTHING

-7.4

1.8

-9.0

-8.1

2.4

-10.2

TEXTILE FABRICS

-11.3

-6.4

-5.3

0.7 -3.1

3.9

TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD

-28.6

_4.

7 →25.0

-9.1 -5.8

-3.5

TEXTILE MADE-UPS AND RELATED ARTICLES

-30.2

RADIOS OF ALL KINDS

-48.9

0.4 -30.4

-8.8 -44.0

-27.5

-23.6 -9.2 -15.8

1.6 -28.5

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