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INDUSTRY AND TRADE

The Display Centre of Hong Kong Products in the City Hall was visited by 8,555 people during the year and enquiries recorded totalled 5,527 from overseas visitors and 4,915 from local visitors. Promotional publicity is also provided by the annual Commerce, Industry and Finance Directory, and the monthly Trade Bulletin, which are published by the Commerce and Industry Department. The Directory is a comprehensive guide to Hong Kong business in its economic and administrative setting. The Trade Bulletin describes Hong Kong's products in magazine form and each month features different aspects of the commercial and industrial scene. Both are distributed free overseas. Textiles Hong Kong, an illus- trated booklet in colour, was published during the year with the assistance of the Information Services Department. This gives a detailed description of many aspects of Hong Kong's textile in- dustry.

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The activities of the Public Relations Joint Committee were centred on the United States and Europe, with a new extension to East Africa. In America the committee arranged a series of sales promotions for Hong Kong products in five cities, in co- operation with the management of prominent department stores. In September, Hong Kong was a guest at the Swiss National Fair in Lausanne, where its pavilion was an outstanding feature of the fair. In keeping with its intention to foster new markets the com- mittee also accepted responsibility for the implementation of two of the recommendations of the Trade Mission to East and Central Africa. A trade representative was appointed in October with offices in the capital cities of each of the four countries visited by the mission, and a selling delegation visited the countries during November.

The 23rd annual exhibition of Hong Kong products, sponsored by the Chinese Manufacturers' Association, provided an oppor- tunity for visitors to see the products of 178 members of the Associa- tion. The exhibition area-400,000 square feet-permitted a larger number of visitors to move about freely and over 1.6 million people visited the exhibition.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS

As the United Kingdom has acceded to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on behalf of Hong Kong, the Colony's exports

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