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Hong Kong: Trade by Commodity Groups
Percentages compare
(Value figures are for January-September 1973.
changes between this period and the same months of 1972)
Value HK $ md.
Increase in prices
Changes in Quantity
Exports
Total
13.7
+16%
+6%
Clothing
5.4
+16%
Textile fabrics
1.1
+25%
+6%
1
Textile yarns &
thread
0.3
+27%
+65%
Textile made-ups
0.2
+2%
-16%
Transistor Radios
0.8
+10%
+15%
Electronic Components
0.5
-8%
+50%
Metal manufactures
0.4
+21%
+5%
Imports
19.2
+15%
+9%
Total
Foodstuffs
3.4
+23%
-3%
Consumer goods
5.3*
+13%
+16%
Raw materials
8.2*
+15%
+7%
Capital goods
2.6
+4%
+21%
*Retained imports of these groups were, however, HK $3.1 md. (consumer goods) and $6.7 md. (raw materials).
On this basis percentage increas
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were 22% and 15% respectively.
in value nine months 173 against '72 If these percentages are "deflated" by the price data shown above,it seems that increases in the quantities of retained imports in these categories were appreciably lower than the 16% and 7% indicated for gro imports.
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