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TABLE 4 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS THE 10 PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

OF

DECREASES

1993, COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN

WERE REGISTERED FOR THE

EXPORTS VALUE OF DOMESTIC IN

AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS EQUIPMENT (BY $1.1 BILLION OR 16%); TEXTILES (BY $969 MILLION OR 12%); PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $811 OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA

AND MILLION OR

EQUIPMENT 9.3%); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $542 MILLION OR 7.0%); (BY $538 MILLION OR 1.8%); AND MISCELLANEOUS CONSISTING MAINLY OF JEWELLERY, GOLDSMITHS' AND (BY $312 MILLION OR 3.3%).

SUPPLIES,

CLOTHING

MANUFACTURED

SILVERSMITHS'

ARTICLES WARES

THE VALUE OF AND

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, A MODERATE INCREASE IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $782 MILLION OR 7.2%).

THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN JUNE 1994, AT $110.8 BILLION, INCREASED BY 24% OVER A YEAR EARLIER.

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM THE 10 MAIN ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 5.

(+46%),

SUPPLIERS

FROM

COMPARING JUNE 1994 WITH JUNE 1993, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS

VARIOUS MAGNITUDES: ALL OF THE MAIN SUPPLIERS SHOWED INCREASES OF

MALAYSIA SINGAPORE (+50%), THE UNITED STATES (+49%), ITALY (+36%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+26%), CHINA (+25%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+19%), TAIWAN (+18%), JAPAN (+12%) AND GERMANY (+8.6%).

1993,

INCREASES

SINGAPORE

COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM ALL OF THE MAIN SUPPLIERS SHOWED OF

ITALY

MALAYSIA (+26%), VARIOUS MAGNITUDES:

(+30%), (+26%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+16%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+16%), CHINA (+16%), TAIWAN (+11%), THE UNITED STATES (+7.5%), GERMANY (+6.6%) JAPAN (+3.2%).

AND

VALUE THE

OF

1994, IMPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF

PERIOD

1993. BY 13% OVER THE SAME AT $572.9 BILLION, INCREASED

HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORT THIS WAS SUPPORTED LARGELY BY THE GROWTH IN TRADE.

OF

IN

TABLE 6 SHOWS THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF IMPORTS OF PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

THE 10

1993, COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1994 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN

OF IMPORTS

MOST PRINCIPAL INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF COMMODITY

DIVISIONS.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY BILLION OR 35%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES, ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $9.2 BILLION OR 18%); TEXTILES (BY

DATA BILLION OR

MACHINES (BY

18%);

$3.8

OFFICE

BILLION

MACHINES

OR

AND

23%);

AUTOMATIC MISCELLANEOUS

$13.9

AND $8.8

PROCESSING MANUFACTURED

ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY OF BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $3.3 BILLION OR 9.4%); AND FOOTWEAR (BY

$3.2 BILLION OR

16%).

/OVER THE

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