Hong Kong's Information Society
The structure, flow, use, and language of information in Hong Kong society
Hong Kong's External Trade in
Information Technology and Telecommunications Products
| Graph 104 - IT&T retained imports
and IT&T imports
as a percentage of all retained imports and total imports
including all goods and services respectively. graphs 105a and 105b | graph 106 | graphs 107a, and 107b | data collection (graphs) |
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| Note 1: The Hong Kong government typically distinguishes between imports and re-exports. Re-exports are goods that are received from abroad and passed along to another country with no value added. Retained imports are the difference between imports and re-exports. In this graph the line retained merchandise imports (green line) compares IT&T retained merchandise imports with all retained merchandise imports for each of the years indicated. |
| Note
2: The series
labelled import of all goods and services (purple line)
compares IT&T merchandise imports with all goods and
services
imports. If IT&T service imports were included the data points for
this series would be somewhat higher. No data for
IT&T
service imports were provided in the report cited below (see tables
6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 of Hong Kong as an Information Society). (graph 105b) |
| Note 3: During the years 2000 and 2001 there was an important buying spree of foreign produced IT&T equipment including computer hardware, computer software, and telecommunications equipment. |
| Source 1: Hong Kong Government. Census and Statistics Department. Information Technology and Telecommunications Statistics Section. 2003. Hong Kong as an Information Society. Chapter 6 - Imports and Exports of Computer Products and Telecommunications Equipment. Table 6.1 Imports by main supplier and exports by main destination of computer hardware, pp. 92-93. Table 6.2 Imports by main supplier and exports by main destination of computer software, p.95. Table 6.3 Imports by main supplier and exports by main destination of telecommunications equipment, pp. 97-98. EARTH's copies are availabe on request. |
| Source 2: Census and Statistics
Department. Hong Kong statistics. Frequently asked statistics. Hong
Kong's trade in services statistics. Exports, imports and net exports
of services by major service group, 2000 - 2002 [online
document - EXCEL file] (15 June 2004).
Also, External trade. External Merchandise Trade. [online
document - EXCEL file] (15 June 2004). EARTH's
copies are available on request. |
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