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Macao's export up 5.2% in 1st quarter
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-05-06 14:01
Macao's volume of export in the first quarter of 2004 hit 4.26 billion
patacas (US$530 million), up 5.2 percent over the same period of last year.
According to a news release issued by the Statistic and Census Services of
the Macao Special Administrative Region, export of textile and garment accounted
for 76.7 percent of the total volume of export. The volume of
textile-and-garment export grew by 1.1 percent over the first quarter of last
year.
Some 68.4 percent of Macao's export went to the United States and the
European Union. The volume of export to the United States drops by 7.2 percent
as compared with the same period of last year, while the export to the European
Union increases by 25.7 percent.
Meanwhile, Macao's volume of import in the first quarter of 2004 saw a
26.9-percent increase over the same period of last year, with 51.7 percent of
the import coming from Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region.
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