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Statistical variabieb

Unit Magnitude

quarter

% chnge over Previout Same quarte

last year

Principal commodities re-exported to Chinu

J

)

Textile yarn, fabrics, made-up articles,

n.e.s. and related products

Telecommunications and sound recording and

reproducing apparatus and equipment

Machinery specialized for particular

industrica

Electrical machinery, apparatus and

appliances, n.e.s., and electrical parts thereof

Iron and steel

Imports from China by end-use category

Consumer goods

Raw materials and semi-manufactures

Foodstuffs

Fuele

Capital goods

Cargo trains

Arrived from China

Departed for China

Trucks

2.50

-2.5

+47.4

0.86

-48.0

+23.0

HKD

) Billion

0.82

+6.8

+142.3

>

0.80 -33.0

+44.7

0.54

+0.1

+31.0

6.52

+18.0

+14.9

5.35

+5.3

+0.2

2.21

+14.0

+0.4

0.51

+2.1

-22.0

0.50

-5.8

+5.0

796

+8.0

+0.4

117

+27.2

+56.0

Arrived from China

Departed for China

Ships

Arrived from China as first

207 614

+9.9

+42.7

No.

213 932

+5.6

+38.6

country of call

Departed for China as last

country of call

769

+3.5

+29.9

766

+3.4

+32.3

Visitors from Hong Kong to China

Hong Kong residents

'000

2 800

+7.7

+30.9

Tourists going through Hong Kong

to China

'000

217

-0.3

+35.6

HKD/RMB official exchange rate

per unit

2.6849

-1.9

-18.4

KMB

N.A.

Not Applicable