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Hong Kong

The value of imports, exports and re-exports by main groups for Jan. Sept. 1971 and Jan. -- Sept. 1981 are shown below:-

1971 Jan.-Sept.

1981 Jan. - Sept.

Imports HK$'000

Exports Re-exports Imports HK$'000 HK$'000 HK$'000

Exports HK$'000

Re-exports

HK$'000

Food, beverage

and tobacco

2,836,822

Crude materials

1,118,175

Mineral fuels and

lubricants

476,250

Animal and vegetable

oils, fats and waxes

86.510

Chemical and related

products

1,115,429

2,940

89,737

209,665 273,489 11,340,790 864,549 1,762,216 118,014 149,466 4,300,823 710,080 2,540,503

32,342 8,106,322 68,354 337,911

7,018 289,559 5,332 41,374

418,127 6,585,677 531,966 2,580,615

Manufactured goods

classified chiefly

by materials

Machinery and

transport equipment Miscellaneous manu- factured articles

4,935,131 1,436,485

2,623,962 1,201,835

1,769,163 7,096,689

963,193 29,401,809 6,250,736 8,952,247

242,648 23,740,318 10,975,429 7,445,587

346,941 16,658,618 38,450,620 6,229,107

Commodities and

transactions not classified according to kind and trans- action in gold and coin

32,300

31,509 13,492

434,595 232,110

Merchandise total

Gold and specie

14,993,740 10,186,874 2,446,718 100,858,512 58,089,177

281,916

137,045 7,125,234

323,730

30,213,289 75,230

Grand total

15,212,656 10,186,874 2,583,763 107,983,746 58,089,177 30,288,519

Direction of Merchandise Trade by percentage

Imports from

Japan

China

U.S.A.

Taiwan

Singapore

Jan.-Sept.

1971

1981

24353

24

23

15

21

13

11

- 30 00

8

8

Exports to

U.S.A.

42

36

U.K.

14

Federal Republic of Germany

8

Japan

3

China

0.1

10 aa+3

9

4

Re-exports to

China

U.S.A.

Indonesia

Singapore Japan

1

19

9

11

9

10

11

20

8

7

With over 2 million visitors a year, Hong Kong is without doubt one of the main tourist centres in Asia. There were 1.8 million visitors in Jan.-Sept. 1980, who were provisionally estimated to have spent HK$5.35 billion.

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