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Table 4: UK Trade Performance in Manufactures(SITC 5-8) in 1984 with:

Country

Unit: £ million

Export/Imports ratios

Exports

Imports

USA

6 477

7 707

84%

France

3 403

4 556

75%

Hong Kong

820

1 233

67%

Italy

1 952

3 258

55%

FRG

4 910

9 979

49%

Japan

736

3 646

20%

Source:

Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom

Table 5: Hong Kong's Imports of Manufactures:

Shares Held by Main Industrial Suppliers

(a) 1984 imports manufactures*

HK$ m

(b)

share of HK market (main suppliers)

% age

(c)

share of world trade (main

suppliers)

% age

(d)

relative performance HK market/

world (b/c x 100)

UK

7 993

9.0

8.9

101%

West Germany

5 296

6.0

21.1

28%

France

2 296

2.6

10.0

26%

Italy

2 923

3.3

9.0

37%

USA

18 776

21.2

20.0

106%

Canada

942

1.1

7.6

14%

Japan

50 311

56.8

23.4

243%

13

Total

88 537

100.0

100.0

Sources:

(a) Hong Kong Trade Statistics

*

(c) UK Monthly Review of External Trade

Statistics (discounting 14.2% share

held by 'other main manufacturing countries')

SITC Divisions 5-8