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HK's total goods exports up 5.5% in Feb

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-04-18 14:27

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's volume of total goods exports grew 5.5 percent while the volume of imports rose 9.8 percent in February compare with the same month of last year, the Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong said Thursday.

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Hong Kong's re-exports of goods also grew 5.9 percent in the same month of last year, while domestic exports shrank 4.5 percent. The price of total goods exports rose 2.8 percent and the price of goods imports grew 3.5 percent. The price of re-exports rose 2.8 percent while that of domestic exports grew 3.4 percent.

In February, the total export volume to the Chinese mainland and Germany rose 12.2 percent and 7.4 percent respectively, while that to Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom fell 0.7 percent, 16.4 percent and 20.3 percent.

Comparing the year's first two months with the same period last year, the volume of Hong Kong's re-exports of goods rose 11.4 percent, while domestic exports fell 2.6 percent. The volume of total exports of goods grew 10.9 percent while the volume of imports rose 13.7 percent.