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External trade statistics by country and commodity

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

The value of re-exports continued to increase notably, by 15% over a year earlier to $100.6 billion in August 1995.

Comparing August 1995 with August 1994, the value of re-exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+36%), Taiwan (+34%), Japan (+32%), South Korea (+28%), the United Kingdom (+23%), France (+23%), the Netherlands (+19%), China (+15%), Germany (+12%) and the United States (+5.6%).

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 eight months of 1995 was $715.9 billion, 19% higher than that in the same period in 1994.

Comparing the first eight 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 (+29%), Taiwan (+26%), France (+25%), the Netherlands (+23%), China (+21%), South Korea (+16%), the United Kingdom (+15%), the United States (+13%) and Germany (+8.3%).

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

Comparing the first eight 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 $21.9 billion or 43%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $16.2 billion or 27%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $13.8 billion or 18%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $13.6 billion or 61%); textiles (by $9.3 billion or 18%); and plastics in primary forms (by $7 billion or 54%).

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