The volume of Hong Kong's total goods exports increased 3.3% year-on-year in January and February, the Census & Statistics Department announced today.
The volume of goods re-exports increased 3.3% compared to the same period last year, while that of domestic exports decreased 0.5%.
Concurrently, the volume of goods imports grew 3.8%.
The department said it is useful to analyse the trade figures for January and February together each year as the trade flows in these two months tend to show considerable volatilities due to differences in timing of the Lunar New Year holidays.
Goods exports prices increased 1.8% over the same period year-on-year, while goods import prices rose 0.6%.
Goods re-exports prices increased 1.8% year-on-year, while that of domestic exports dropped 1.7%.