HONG KONG - CHINESE MAINLAND TRADE GROWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600270360-2
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 360
• Publication Date: December 13, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION HgSTRI ;? ~'
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN3~`~ REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO rZOADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Communist China
SUBJECT Economic - Foreign trude
HOW
PUBLISHED Deily newspaperr
WHERE
PUBLISHED Hong Kong
DATE
PUBLISHED 28 Oct 1949
LANGUAGE Chinese
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Figures for the first 9 months of 1949 reveal an increase in import trade
with the Chinese mainland from 39.34 percent to 22.99 percent of the total
foreign trade of Hong Kong, as compare with the same period of 1948.
Trade increased from 276,874,20 Hong Kong dollars for January through
ss Is September 1948 l far from tbe3preWar dollars
34.2 i percentsor Hong Kong's 1949.
from the mainland, but the increase of 59.7 percent over last year is
encouraging. ,6
Regionally the following figures show the trend in Hong Kong imports
from the Chinese mainland:
Hd oa ~D-42 Increase
(HK dollars) (HK dollars) (in 5)
North China 71,314,966 140,086,727 96.43
South China 176,421,576 263,892,401
Central China 29,137,576 36,827,214
mainland Increased from 16.71 percent in September 1948 to 19.95 percent in
September 1949. The Hong Kong dollar increase was from 184,829,597 to M
Borth China
Central Chins
South China
STATE
ARMY
NAVY
AIR
CLASSIFICATION
NBI
Fal
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(HK doll-exe) (HK dollars)
63,649,588.
140,805,949
44,558,074
77,653,422
76,621,935
101,267,495
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Fo'_lccving World War II, US trad&-, with Hong Kong occupied an importam place
until 1949. It has now decreased to s=cond place in Hong Kong imports and
fourth place in exports.
Prior to the war, trade with the United Kingdom was paramount, but since
the war, fate trade has been small. Imports during 1948-49 rose from 192,008,368
to 268,442,139 Hong Kong dollars. Exports rose from 54,637,E to 107,297,381
dollars.
Wbile there has been little change in imports from Macao, exports increac-d
from 89,843,873 to 174,301,060 Hong Kong dollars. Most of these goods are
distributed in South China.
Percentage relationships for the trade of various countries with Hong Kong
are as follows:
US
20.00
21.01
China
19.34
22.99
United Kingdom
12.71
14.00
Thailand
6.73
4.11
Malaya
4.49
3.34
Japan
3.95
3.65
Australia
2.84
2.33
India
2.08
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Belgium
2.07
2.65
Burma
2.06
0.93
Canada
1.59
2.04
Italy
2.02
0.68
N Korea
1.42
1.44
9 Korea
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chi na
16.71
19.95
Malaya
14.09
11.34
US
10.11
9.59
Thailanl
9.67
6.24
Philippines
9.30
4.62
Macao
8.12
10.91
United Kingdom
4.94
6.71
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4.84
2.37
Japan
3.02
3.34
S Korea
2.71
3.43
H Korea
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2.42
India
1.75
0.79
Australia
1.12
1.66
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