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Reference

No. of

Relevant

Table

INDICES ON BASE

Base

Monthly Average

Monthly Average

1948

1949

Monthly Average

1950

Monthly Average, 1947

excess of exports

$1,033,796

125.1

$1,284,500

155.5

$1,872,759

226.7

(Canvas

and

Rubber)

(v) Electric

Torches &

Flashlight Batteries

($826,262) over

imports

100

Monthly Average, 1947

$1,721,549

excess of exports

118.9

$3,419,088

236.1

$2,914.344

197.2

($1,447,848) over

imports

100

(vi) Rattan

Monthly Average, 1947

$177,857

$341,386

Furniture

excess of exports

112.8

216.5

$691,594

438.5

($157,709) over

imports

100

(vii) Rope

Monthly Average, 1947

$96,193

$115,479

$278,322

excess of exports

($82,242) over

117.0.

140.4

338.4

imports

100

229

Exports of certain

commodities

manufactured in

Hong Kong

*

(contd.):

(iv) Boots &

Shoes

*

Note:-These indices are not indices of production, but simply of the excess of exports over imports.