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More notable increases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $44.9 billion or 36%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $23.6 billion or 21%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $18.6 billion or 43%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $13.1 billion or 16%); textiles (by $12.2 billion or 11%); and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $8.4 billion or 17%).

Over the same period, a decrease in the value of imports was recorded for road vehicles (by $5.1 billion or 11%).

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 November 1995 will be released in early February.

Detailed trade statistics analysed by commodity and by country/ territory are published in trade statistics reports.

The November 1995 issue of the Hong Kong External Trade with detailed analyses on the performance of Hong Kong's external trade in November 1995 will be on sale at $122 per copy around January 23.

The report can be purchased at either the Government Publications Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, or the Publications Unit 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 Publications (Sales) Office, 28th Floor, Siu On Centre, 188 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, Tel 2598 8194, and enquiries on trade statistics to the Census and Statistics Department, Tel 2582 4915.