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

The value of re-exports in the first seven months of 1995 was $615.3 billion, 20% higher than that in the same period in 1994.

Comparing the first seven months of 1995 with the same period in 1994, the value of re-exports to all main destinations showed increases, of various magnitudes: Singapore (+35%), Japan (+28%), Taiwan (+25%), France (+25%), the Netherlands (+24%), China (+21%), the United States (+15%), South Korea (+14%), the United Kingdom (+14%) and Germany (+7.7%).

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

divisions.

Comparing the first seven 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 $18.6 billion or 43%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $13.3 billion or 26%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $12.2 billion or 20%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $11.6 billion or 60%); textiles (by $9.2 billion or 20%); and plastics in primary forms (by $6.6 billion or 61%).

Over the same period, re-exports of clothing fell by $1.2 billion, representing a small decrease of 2.3% over a year earlier.

The value of domestic exports in July 1995, at $22.1 billion, increased by 8.4% over a year earlier.

Comparing July 1995 with July 1994, the value of domestic exports to most of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Taiwan (+55%), Japan (+23%), France (+21%), the Netherlands (+18%), the United Kingdom (+11%), Singapore (+6.6%), China (+5.5%), Canada (+4.9%) and the United States (+4.5%).

0.7%.

However, the value of domestic exports to Germany decreased marginally, by

Changes in the value of domestic exports to ten main destinations are shown in Table 3.