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External trade figures by country and commodity for May 95

The Census and Statistics Department today (Tuesday) released detailed statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity for May 1995.

The value of re-exports, continued to increase notably, by 27% over a year earlier to $96.6 billion in May 1995.

Comparing May 1995 with May 1994, the value of re-exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+51%), Japan (+39%), France (+38%), Taiwan (+34%), China (+31%), the Netherlands (+29%), the United Kingdom (+25%), the United States (+20%), Germany (+17%) and South Korea (+12%).

Changes in the value of Hong Kong's re-exports to 10 main destinations are shown in Table 1.

The value of re-exports in the first five months of 1995 was $421.2 billion, 21% higher than that in the same period in 1994.

Comparing the first five months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of re-exports to all main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+33%), Japan (+29%), France (+25%), Taiwan (+24%), China (+23%), the Netherlands (+21%), the United States (+18%), South Korea (+15%), the United Kingdom (+11%) and Germany (+6.0%).

Table 2 shows changes in the value of re-exports of 10 principal commodity

divisions.

Comparing the first five months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, increases of various magnitudes were recorded in the value of re-exports of most principal commodity divisions.

More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $12.9 billion or 44%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $10.3 billion or 30%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $8.6 billion or 65%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $8.5 billion or 22%); textiles (by $7.5 billion or 24%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $4.1 billion or 27%).