Goods Exports Up 5.3%
The volume of Hong Kong's total exports of goods increased 5.3% year-on-year in March, the Census & Statistics Department announced today.
Concurrently, the volume of imports of goods increased 8.1%.
The prices of total exports and imports of goods both rose 2.5% year-on-year.
For the first quarter of 2018, the volume of total exports of goods was up 7.3% over the same period last year, while that of goods imports rose 8.2%.
Both the prices of total goods exports and imports rose 2.3% for the period.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, the volume of total exports of goods increased 2.2% in the first quarter of the year compared with the fourth quarter of 2017, while goods imports increased 2.9%.
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