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Appendix XVI

(Chapter 4: Industry and Trade)

Trade

Value of Hong Kong's Merchandise Trade

Imports... Exports... Re-exports Total trade

1968 1967

1968

1967

% increase or decrease

$ million $ million

12,472

10,449

+ 19%

8,428

6,700

+ 26%

2,142

2,081

+ 3%

23,042

19,230

20%

Cargo Tonnages

Appendix XVII

(Chapter 4: Industry and Trade) Imports: Commodity Pattern

1968 total value $12,472 million

Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material

Food and live animals

Machinery and transport equipment

Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Crude materials, inedible, except fuels Chemicals

►

1967

1968

$ million $ million

11.9 million tons

11.5 million tons

% of total imports in 1968 32% 20%

13

11

106°

8%

% increase or decrease

Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material

Textile yarn, fabrics and made-up articles Non-metallic mineral manufactures

Paper, paperboard and manufactures thereof Iron and steel

Non-ferrous metals...

Manufactures of metals, n.e.s.

Food and live animals

Cereals and cereal preparations

*

+

3,976

3,137

+27

2,108

1,563

+35

853

715

+19

318

244

30

228

240

5

207

141

47

121

123

*

2,468

2,329

603

+

637

5%

Fruit and vegetables

Live animals

Meat and meat preparations

Fish and fish preparations...

Dairy products and eggs

Sugar, sugar preparations and honey

Miscellaneous food preparations

Machinery and transport equipment

Electrical machinery

Non-electric machinery

·

Transport equipment

508

438

356

365

39

252

206

•

251

239

202

190

*

Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices and manufactures thereof

98

89

91

...

68

76

68

1,604

1,347

922

756

482

416

+

200

174

Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Scientific and controlling instruments, photographic and

optical goods, watches and clocks

Miscellaneous manufactured articles, n.e.s.

1,366

1,100

...

526

409

514

427

Clothing

Footwear

Crude materials, inedible, except fuels

•

Textile fibres

Oil-seeds, oil nuts and oil kernels

205

163

53

...

42

1,261

986

840

578

Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials

Crude animal and vegetable materials Wood, lumper and cork

Metalliferous ores and metal scrap

Crude rubber, including synthetic and reclaimed

Chemicals

Chemical elements and compounds

Medicinal and pharmaceutical products

Essential oils and perfume materials

210

220

66

52

-

41

38

39

32

27

40

1,041

861

Plastic materials, regenerated cellulose and artificial resins

312

268

204

...

165

202

163

139

111

107

87

+++++++++++++++ +++++·

22

+16

+ 15

+ 24

+ 29

+ 20

+ 26

26

28

45

+21

33

21

16

24

+26

++ 23