Hong Kong's Offshore Trade Statistics for 2003
Friday, 15 April 2005



Table 3 Analysis of merchanting by main destination of sales of goods involved in merchanting, 2002 – 2003


Sales of goods involved
in merchanting
Gross margin from
merchanting


Destination Year HK$ million Share
(%)
Year-on-year
% change
HK$ million Share
(%)
Year-on-year
% change
Trade
margin
(%)

The mainland 2002 383,353 37.3 7.4 31,948 36.2 6.4 8.3
of China 2003 442,401 37.5 15.4 33,751 33.7 5.6 7.6
United States 2002 200,311 19.5 21.9 21,248 24.1 13.0 10.6
of America 2003 209,810 17.8 4.7 24,442 24.4 15.0 11.6
Japan 2002 92,239 9.0 48.8 7,338 8.3 27.6 8.0
2003 92,243 7.8 # 7,056 7.0 -3.8 7.6
Taiwan 2002 39,791 3.9 88.1 2,672 3.0 52.0 6.7
2003 49,595 4.2 24.6 3,246 3.2 21.5 6.5
Republic of 2002 43,789 4.3 10.6 1,874 2.1 56.2 4.3
Korea 2003 47,400 4.0 8.2 1,936 1.9 3.3 4.1
Others 2002 267,297 26.0 10.7 23,239 26.3 6.2 8.7
2003 339,432 28.7 27.0 29,706 29.7 27.8 8.8
All destinations 2002 1,026,780 100.0 16.0 88,320 100.0 11.2 8.6
2003 1,180,882 100.0 15.0 100,136 100.0 13.4 8.5

Notes : 1. The sum of individual items and the corresponding total shown in the table may not tally because of rounding.
# Denotes percentage change within ±0.05%.

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