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MONDAY, JULY 11, 1994

THE

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HONG KONG'S EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR MAY 1994

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(MONDAY) CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY

TRADE WITH BREAKDOWN ON EXTERNAL DETAILED STATISTICS COUNTRY/TERRITORY AND COMMODITY FOR MAY 1994.

RELEASED

BY

THE

VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN MAY 1994, AT $75.9 BILLION, AN INCREASE OF 13% OVER MAY 1993.

SHOWED

VARIOUS

WERE

DESTINATIONS:

MAGNITUDE

SINGAPORE (+16%), CHINA KOREA (+13%), THE

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, INCREASES OF RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO MOST OF THE MAIN JAPAN

THE UNITED KINGDOM (+20%), (+26%), (+15%), THE NETHERLANDS (+14%), THE REPUBLIC OF UNITED STATES (+12%), FRANCE (+4.0%) AND GERMANY (+2.4%).

NEVERTHELESS,

SLIGHTLY BY 2.5%.

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS

TO TAIWAN

DECREASED

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF HONG KONG'S RE-EXPOFTS TO MAIN DESTINATIONS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

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1994 WAS

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF $348.0 BILLION, 13% HIGHER THAN THAT IN THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993.

COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF

UNITED STATES OF KOREA (+11%},

1993, (+25%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+21%), CHINA (+16%), THE

THE

(+13%), NETHERLANDS (+13%), SINGAPORE (+9.5%), GERMANY (+5.6%) AND FRANCE (+0.3%).

THE

REPUBLIC

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN

BY 3.9%.

DECREASED

MILDLY

TABLE 2 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS OF THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

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COMPARING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993, INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDE WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF RE- EXPORTS OF ALL PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY BILLION OR 40%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES,

TEXTILES (BY $3.2 ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $4.4 BILLION OR 17%);

OFFICE MACHINES BILLION OR 12%); FOOTWEAR (BY $2.6 BILLION OR 14%); AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $2.5 BILLION OR 24%)

OF MAINLY MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $2.5 BILLION OR 6.7%%).

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

$9.9 AND

AND BABY

1994, AT $17.7 BILLION,

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN MAY DECREASED SLIGHTLY BY 2.4% OVER A YEAR EARLIER.

EXPORTS то KINGDOM AND THE

DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC GERMANY (-13%), TAIWAN (-8.7%), CANADA (-7.5%), THE UNITED (-4.0%), CHINA (-2.5%), SINGAPORE (-2.2%), MALAYSIA (-1.7%) UNITED STATES (-1.2%)

HOWEVER, THE

+

OF VALUE

DOMESTIC EXPORTS NETHERLANDS INCREASED BY 10% AND 3.2% RESPECTIVELY.

TO

AND JAPAN

THE

/THE CHANGES