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40201

1014

HONG KONG'S EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES

£'Million

COMMODITY

1959

1969

Clothing

51

266

Textile yarns, fabrics made up articles and related products

36

105

Miscellaneous manufactured

articles n.e.s.

20

181

Manufactures of metal n.e.s.

8

22

11..

1.

Footwear

7

21

Non-metallic mineral manufacturers

n.e.s.

4

48

Electrical machinery, apparatus and

appliances

'81

Scientific and controlling instruments, photographic and optical goods, watches and clocks

3

23

TOTAL ALL EXPORTS (fob)

205

907

Source: Census and Statistics Department Hong Kong

HONG KONG: ESTIMATED BALANCE OF PAYMENTS 1969

£'Million

SA

CURRENT ACCOUNT

Imports

GEO

Exports

Invisibles (net)

-951

916

119

CURRENT ACCOUNT BALANCE

BALANCE OF LONG-TERM CAPITAL

84

7

BALANCE OF CURRENT AND LONG-TERM CAPITAL

91

BALANCING ITEM

26

CHANGE IN RESERVES

(increase)

-117

Source: Paper for Working Party on World Economic Prospects,

dated June 1970

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