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Comparing the year 1994 with the year 1993, increases were recorded in the value of imports of all principal commodity divisions.
More notable increases were registered for telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $27.3 billion or 29%); electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $22.5 billion or 19%); textiles (by $19.3 billion or 20%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $11.6 billion or 31%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $11.5 billion or 14%); and non-metallic mineral manufactures (by $6.4 billion or 19%).
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 December 1994 will be released in early March.
Detailed trade statistics analysed by commodity and by country/territory are published in trade statistics reports.
The December 1994 issue of the "Hong Kong External Trade" with detailed analyses of the performance of Hong Kong's external trade in December and the whole year 1994 will be available for sale at $86 a copy around February 28.
The report can be purchased at the Government Publications Centre on the ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, and 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 (telephone 2842 8802) and enquiries on trade statistics to the Census and Statistics Department (telephone 2582 4915).
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