Apart from destinations in Asia, significant increases were also registered in the values of total exports to some major destinations in other regions, in particular Germany”(+25.9%), the United Kingdom (+17.7%) and the USA (+10.5%) .Concurrently, decreases were registered in the values of total exports to some major destinations, in particular Japan(-10.2%) .Over the same period of comparison, increases were registered in the values of imports from most major suppliers, in particular India (+33.2%),Thailand (+20.8%),Japan(+6.0%),Korea (+5.8%) and the mainland of China (the Mainland) (+5.8%) .For the first quarter of 2008 as a whole, distinct year-on-year increases were registered in the values of total exports to most major destinations, in particular India (+112.2%), Singapore (+20.7%), Germany (+17.5%), the Mainland (+11.1%) and the Netherlands (+8.8%) .Over the same period of comparison, significant year-on-year increases were registered in the values of imports from all major suppliers, in particular India+50.6%), Thailand (+27.8%),Malaysia (+16.1%), thePhilippines (+15.0%) and the Mainland (+10.2%) .Analysis by major commodity:.Comparing March 2008 with March 2007, significant increases were registered in the values of total exports of many principal commodity divisions, in particular “clothing” (by $2.4 billion or 21.6%).Source: Census and Statistics Department.
Date:4/29/2008
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