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HK's external trade statistics by country and commodity

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Detailed statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity for December and the whole year of 1995 was released by the Census and Statistics Department today (Monday).

The value of re-exports continued to increase, by 16% over a year earlier to $95.2 billion in December 1995.

Comparing December 1995 with December 1994, the value of re-exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Japan (+34%), China (+25%), South Korea ( +25%), France (+21%), Singapore (+18%), Taiwan (+16%), the United Kingdom (+15%), the Netherlands (+14%), Germany (+12%) and the United States (+2.9%).

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

The value of re-exports for the whole year of 1995 was $1,112.5 billion, 17% higher than that in 1994.

Comparing the year 1995 with the year 1994, the value of re-exports to all main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Japan (+28%), Singapore (+28%), France (+28%), Taiwan (+24%), the Netherlands (+23%), China (+19%), the United Kingdom (+18%), South Korea (+17%), Germany (+10%) and the United States (+10%).

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

divisions.

Comparing the year 1995 with the year 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 $30.9 billion or 37%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $20.3 billion or 55%); telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (by $19.5 billion or 20%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of baby carriages, toys, games and sporting goods (by $19 billion or 15%); textiles (by $10.7 billion or 13%); and plastics in primary forms (by $9.9 billion or 47%).