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More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $9.5 billion or 31%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $6.1 billion or 23%); textiles (by $6.0 billion or 25%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $4.4 billion or 24%); road vehicles (by $3.9 billion or 50%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $3.7 billion or 30%); and office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $3.6 billion or 34%).
All the trade statistics described here are measured at current prices and no account has been taken of changes in prices between the periods of comparison.
A separate analysis of the volume and price movements of external trade for January 1995 will be released in early April 1995.
Detailed trade statistics analysed by commodity and by country/ territory are published in trade statistics reports.
The January 1995 issue of the "Hong Kong External Trade" with detailed analyses on the performance of Hong Kong's external trade in January 1995 will be available for sale at $122 per copy around March 22.
The report can be purchased either at the Government Publications Centre, Ground Floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, or the Publications Section of the Census and Statistics Department, 19th Floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Enquiries regarding regular subscription to this report may be directed to the Information Services Department at French Mission Building, 1 Battery Path, Hong Kong on tel 2842 8802 and enquiries on trade statistics to the Census and Statistics Department on tel 2582 4915.
End/Monday, March 13, 1995
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