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Thursday, November 11, 1999, updated at 15:04(GMT+8)
Business HK's re-exports increase in September

Hong Kong's re-exports increased by 8.3 percent in September over a year earlier to 106.3 billion HK dollars (13.6 billion U.S. dollars), said a report released by the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department November 9.

The domestic exports declined by 8.4 percent to 14.7 billion HK dollars (1.9 billion U.S. dollars) in September over a year earlier.

Meanwhile, the imports rose by 7.9 percent to 124.8 billion HK dollars (16 billion U.S. dollars). A substantial increase of 94.5 percent was recorded in the value of re-exports to south Korea over the same month of last year.

The growth of re-exports to Germany and Japan was 14.0 percent and 12.2 percent respectively, according to the report.

In terms of the commodity, the re-exports of electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof in September rose by 36.6 percent over a year ago.

Meanwhile, the re-exports of photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks grew by 18.8 percent and the re-exports of plastics in primary forms increased by 12.0 percent.

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