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More notable increases were registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $23.8 billion or 32%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $16.7 billion or 18%); textiles (by $15.2 billion or 19%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $9 billion or 31%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $8.6 billion or 13%); and non- metallic mineral manufactures (by $5.5 billion or 20%).

Over the same period, a decrease in the value of imports was recorded for road vehicles (by $2.2 billion or 4.8%).

All the trade statistics described here are measured at current prices and no account has been taken of the changes in prices between the periods of comparison.

A separate analysis of the volume and price movements of external trade for October 1994 will be released in early January next year.

Detailed trade statistics analysed by commodity and by country/territory are published in trade statistics reports.

The October 1994 issue of the "Hong Kong External Trade" with detailed analyses on the performance of Hong Kong's external trade in October 1994 will be available for sale at $86 a copy around December 21.

The report can be purchased either at the Government Publications Centre on the Ground Floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, or at the Publications Section of the Census and Statistics Department on the 19th Floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai.

Enquiries regarding regular subscription to the report may be directed to the Information Services Department at French Mission Building, 1 Battery Path, Hong Kong (Tel 842 8802) and enquiries on trade statistics to the Census and Statistics Department (Tel 582 4915).