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Appendix IX

(Chapter 6: Industry and Trade)

Principal Commodities Imported

Principal commodities imported, with quantities and values, during 1958, and comparative figures for the two preceding years:

Rice (cwt.)

Raw cotton (cwt.)

Cotton piece-goods

(bleached) (sq. yd.)..

Swine (nos.)

Artificial textiles

(sq. yd.)

Watches and watch movements (nos.)

Diamonds, cut and

polished

Furnace fuel oils (ton)

Sugar (cwt.)

Cotton piece-goods

1956

Quantity

1957

1958

Quantity

Value HK$

Value

Quantity

HK$

Value HK$

5,557,880 191,685,546 6,162,008 214,047,979 7,509,386 266,225,097 1,305,086 254,266,681 1,385,706 257,435,957 1,345,943 212,563,587

159,732,482 205,097,287 162,652,603 214,970.756 148,987,584 196,285,796 548,537 88,556,608 543,127 92,370,005 835,960 125,898,284

134,823,576 165,591,401 112,831,147 143,758,152 69,539,660 108,536,743

3,014,099 118,695,177 4,021,629 174,946,571

2,386,806 105,006,315

85,012,658

93,619,811

725,464 100,065,004

97,785,318

699,823 81,989,905

760,466 91,165,235

2,398,000 72,624,921 2,138,481 81,326,755 2,656,656 82,197,386

(unbleached) (sq. yd.) 114,221,462 98,429,327 118,182,462 100,100,368 108,080,425 77,966,567

Woollen piece-goods

(sq. yd.)

Plants, seeds, flowers.

for medicines,

perfumery, etc. (cwt.) Bed linen, table linen

and kitchen linen

Poultry, live (lb.)

Cotton yarn and thread

(lb.)

Cigarettes (lb.) ..

Bovine cattle, including

buffaloes (nos.)

Fresh vegetables (cwt.)

Iron and steel bars and

rounds (cwt.)

Cement (cwt.)

Passenger road motor

vehicles, complete, other than buses or motor cycles (nos.) Gas oil, diesel fuel,

distillate stove oil (ton)

Yarn and thread of

synthetic fibres and spun glass (lb.) Tea (lb.)

Iron and steel black

plates (cwt.)

Mild steel plates and

sheets, uncoated (cwt.)

Textile machinery and

accessories

Plates and sheets, zinc

coated (galvanized) (cwt.)

8,980,237 82,628,045 11,008,102 102,849,207 7,881,632 72,412,441

602,047 77,492,629 467,192 84,972,762 1,031,261 68.276,758

39,047,723

52,690,693

60,919,457

20,477,878 38,426,660 27,455,071 44,906,818 37,574,521 57,799,680

36,542,411 103,607,275 39,360,993 97,068,344 17,755,050 49,799,952 3,925,699 36,615,009 4,642,353 47,070,440 4,784,769 49,700,121

79,802 34,568,797 2,471,835 32,654,742

83,411 39,385,276

3,398,343 44,859,946

132,881 46,091,580

3,199,732 41,723,212

895,768 32,864,108 1,911,870 79,082,546 4,982,266 29,536,371)_5,711,884 32,928,023

1,290,019 37,011,538

6,661,626 35,328,637

3,381 30,959,655

4,529 42,973,575

3,724 34,837,347

176,854 34,377,837

160,929 29,895,504 178,254 36,243,649

24,007,957 67,721,392 15,448,013 57,387,472 6,909,461 29,585,850

14,397,354 26,321,506 15,340,835 29,792,532 14,035,914 29,569,679

1,007,155 38,063,584 702,204 29,237,034

816,705 27,097,158

730,861 29,443,680

860,501 42,545,899

677,258 26,108,769

20,482,312

37,354,260

23.141,169

865,410 59,449,719

595,671 45,653,717

128,300 6,956,278