TNAG-2292-FCO40-3304-Official-visits-from-Hong-Kong-to-China-1991 — Page 20

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Exports

Year-on-year

growth rate

Imports

Year-on-year

growth rate

Visible trade

Value

in money terms

Value

in money terms

balance

(US$BN)

(%)

(USSBN)

(%)

(USSBN)

1990 Annual

62.1

18.1

53.3

-9.8

3.7

H1

25.7

15.0

23.1

-17.7

2.5

H2

36.4

20.2

30.3

-2.7

5.2

1991

Q1

13.3

23.5

11.1

11.7

2.2

Q2

17.1

14.9

15.6

19.2

1.4

H1

30.4

18.5

26.8

15.9

3.5

12.

Some

Reflecting the much faster growth rate of output

of the foreign-funded enterprises, the share of exports

attributed to these enterprises increased to 15.5% in the

first half of 1991 from 12.6% in 199019).

foreign-funded enterprises are allowed to have a certain

proportion of their output sold in the local market. But

the quotas are usually under-utilised given that most of

their output are destined for export. The relatively poor performance of the official foreign trade corporations was

related partly to the new foreign trade system which

eliminated all fiscal subsidies on exports, and partly to

the closure of

many of these corporations as a result of

the campaign for rectification of economic order(20).

13.

In the latest

Development Report, the

edition of the World Bank's World

Bank

"market friendliness" which

sets out a new policy of

emphasizes private sector

(19) In the first half of 1991, exports by foreign-funded enterprises reached US$4.7 billion, representing an increase of 58.4% over the same period in 1990.

(20)

Up to end-June 1991, 932 official foreign trade corporations or 43.6% of the original total had been closed.

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