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1950

INDICES ON BASE

Monthly Average

Base

Monthly Average

Monthly Average

1948

1949

229

Exports of certain

commodities

manufactured in'

Hong Kong*

(contd.):

(viii) Trunks

Monthly Average, 1947

$302,691

and

excess of exports

113.7

$333,078

125.1

$486,411

182.7

Suitcases

($266,258 over)

imports

100

(ix) Lamps

Monthly Average, 1947

$247,888

and

excess of exports

68.3

$251,084

69.2

$172,213

47.4

Lamp-

($363,060) over

ware

imports

100

(x) Hats and

Monthly Average, 1947

$220,927

$238,566

$391,128

Caps

(Foreign

Style)

excess of exports

213.2

230.2

377.4

($103,639) over

imports

100

Reference

No. of

Relevant

Table

7

*

(xi) Umbrellas Monthly Average, 1947

excess of exports

($248,409) over

(i)-(xi)* Totals Monthly Average, 1947

imports

100

excess of exports

imports

100

($4,323,882) over

$490,341

$403,818

197.4

162.6

$524,286

211.1

$5,727,058

132.5

$7,993,191

184.9

$8,437,216

195.1

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

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