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EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS FOR AUGUST 1994

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THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY DETAILED STATISTICS ON EXTERNAL TRADE WITH COUNTRY/TERRITORY AND COMMODITY FOR AUGUST 1994.

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN AUGUST 1994, SHOWED AN INCREASE OF 20% OVER AUGUST 1993.

AT

$87.4 BILLION,

COMPARING AUGUST 1994 WITH AUGUST 1993, INCREASES WERE RECORDED JAPAN (+27%), THE IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE (+31%),

THE UNITED STATES (+21%), CANADA (+21%), CHINA (+20%), FRANCE (+18%),

REPUBLIC OF KOREA UNITED KINGDOM (+13%), GERMANY (+9.3%) AND THE (+4.8%).

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN DECREASED MARGINALLY

BY 0.3%.

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

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THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1994 $599.7 BILLION, 14% HIGHER THAN THAT IN THE SAME PERIOD IN 1993.

WAS

PERIOD COMPARING THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME

JAPAN IN 1993,

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO

UNITED KINGDOM (+24%), THE UNITED STATES (+17%), CHINA (+16%), THE

REPUBLIC THE

CANADA SINGAPORE (+15%),

(+11%), (+6.6%), GERMANY (+5.3%) AND FRANCE (+3.2%).

(+13%),

OF

KOREA

HOWEVER, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO TAIWAN DECREASED

SLIGHTLY

BY 1.4%

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

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PERIOD

COMPARING THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF 1994 WITH THE SAME IN 1993, INCREASES OF VARIOUS MAGNITUDES WERE RECORDED IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS OF MOST PRINCIPAL COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

THEREOF

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

$16.2 AND

MORE NOTABLE INCREASES WERE REGISTERED FOR AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY BILLION OR 37%); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES,

OR ELECTRICAL

(BY $7.7 BILLION

18%); PARTS

MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES CONSISTING MAINLY OF BABY CARRIAGES, TOYS, GAMES AND SPORTING GOODS (BY $7.5 BILLION OR 11%); TEXTILES (BY $7.2 BILLION MACHINES AND OR 16%); FOOTWEAR (BY $4.6 BILLION OR 15%); AND OFFICE AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES (BY $4.5 BILLION OR 26%).

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, A DECREASE IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS WAS RECORDED FOR ROAD VEHICLES (BY $1.3 BILLION OR 5.8%).

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN AUGUST 1994, AT $21.1 BILLION, INCREASED BY 7.5% OVER A YEAR EARLLER.

/COMPARING AUGUST