Government of Macao Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service
EXTERNAL TRADE STATISTICS
JULY/2005 No. 7
In July 2005, Macao’s total value of exports amounted to MOP1.84 billion, down 22.6% over the same month of 2004. Among this, the value of domestic exports decreased 28.6% to MOP1.36 billion, and the value of re-exports increased 1.8% to MOP475 million. Value of imports amounted to MOP2.90 billion, up 13.4% over the same period of 2004. A trade deficit of MOP1.07 billion was recorded this month.
During the period of January - July 2005, the value of total exports registered a year-on-year decrease of 26.2% to MOP9.22 billion. Among this, the value of domestic exports and re-exports fell 34.3% and 0.7% respectively. Meanwhile, the value of imports amounted to MOP16.28 billion, up 5.4% over the same period of 2004.
Table 1
PRINCIPAL INDICATORS OF EXTERNAL TRADE
MOP thousand
2004 2005 Year-on-year % change
Principal indicators July Jan. – Jul. July Jan. – Jul. July Jan. – Jul.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Exports 2 371 559 12 488 171 1 835 553 9 220 769 -22.6 -26.2
Domestic exports 1 904 929 9 456 526 1 360 398 6 209 350 -28.6 -34.3
Re-exports 466 629 3 031 645 475 155 3 011 419 1.8 -0.7
Imports 2 558 227 15 446 051 2 901 624 16 283 817 13.4 5.4
Trade balance a -186 668 -2 957 880 -1 066 072 -7 063 048 -471.1 -138.8
Exports/Imports ratio 92.7 80.9 63.3 56.6 . . . .
a Trade balance is the difference between the value of exports and imports.
. . Not applicable
Note: Due to rounding, the totals may not correspond to the sums of the partial figures.
In the first seven months of 2005, Macao’s trade balance registered a deficit of MOP7.06 billion.
During this period, the exports/imports ratio decreased from 80.9% in the corresponding period of 2004 to 56.6%.
In the first seven months of 2005, the value of Textile & garment exports, which accounted for 73.9% of the total exports, decreased 31.6% over the same period of 2004. Moreover, the value of Non- textile exports also dropped 4.9%. As the major components of the non-textile exports, Machines and apparatus, parts & accessories thereof expanded 10.3%, whereas Footwear fell 90.8% year-on-year.
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Table 2
EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY
MOP thousand
2004 2005 Year-on-year
Principal commodities
Jan. – Jul. Structure % Jan. – Jul. Structure % % change
1 2 3 4 5 6
Total 12 488 171 100.0 9 220 769 100.0 -26.2
Textile and garment 9 958 417 79.7 6 813 786 73.9 -31.6
Garment of:
Knitted fabrics 4 613 390 36.9 3 310 782 35.9 -28.2
Non-knitted fabrics 3 824 714 30.6 2 241 516 24.3 -41.4
Textile fabrics 912 943 7.3 762 689 8.3 -16.5
Textile yarn and threads 505 229 4.0 439 709 4.8 -13.0
Others 102 141 0.8 59 089 0.6 -42.1
Non-textile 2 529 754 20.3 2 406 984 26.1 -4.9
Machines and apparatus; 648 755 5.2 715 820 7.8 10.3
parts and accessories thereof
Footwear 535 302 4.3 49 281 0.5 -90.8
Cements 3 690 0.0 2 812 0.0 -23.8
Others 1 342 007 10.7 1 639 071 17.8 22.1
Note: Due to rounding, the totals may not correspond to the sums of the partial figures.
The USA and the EU remained as Macao’s major export markets, together making up 59.0% of the total value of exports. Among this, exports to the USA, which made up 47.7% of the total value of exports, decreased 24.9% over the same period of 2004; exports to the EU, which made up 11.3% of the total value of exports, also fell 62.8% over the same period of 2004. As regards the Asian markets, Mainland China and Hong Kong together absorbed 29.5% of Macao’s total value of exports. Compared with the corresponding period of 2004, the value of exports to Mainland China and Hong Kong dropped 6.4% and 1.1%
respectively.
Table 3
EXPORTS BY MAIN COUNTRY/ TERRITORY
MOP thousand
Main countries/ 2004 2005 Year-on-year
territories Jan. – Jul. Structure % Jan. – Jul. Structure % % change
1 2 3 4 5 6
Total 12 488 171 100.0 9 220 769 100.0 -26.2
EU 2 806 247 22.5 1 043 085 11.3 -62.8
Germany 1 031 662 8.3 408 219 4.4 -60.4
United Kingdom 542 970 4.3 187 875 2.0 -65.4
France 396 790 3.2 158 169 1.7 -60.1
Portugal 12 508 0.1 10 275 0.1 -17.9
USA 5 855 902 46.9 4 397 177 47.7 -24.9
Mainland China 1 787 862 14.3 1 672 737 18.1 -6.4
Hong Kong 1 064 337 8.5 1 053 160 11.4 -1.1
Taiwan, China 87 780 0.7 98 973 1.1 12.8
Japan 105 737 0.8 108 616 1.2 2.7
Australia 16 263 0.1 18 195 0.2 11.9
Others 764 043 6.1 828 826 9.0 8.5
Note: 1) Due to rounding, the totals may not correspond to the sums of the partial figures.
2) Since May 2004, the number of the EU member states has increased from 15 to 25.
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During the period of January - July 2005, Macao’s total value of imports increased 5.4%
year-on-year. In terms of broad economic categories, Fuels & lubricants, Capital goods and Consumer goods rose 34.8%, 24.6% and 3.2% respectively, whereas Raw materials & semi-manufactures registered a year-on-year decrease of 5.8%.
Table 4
IMPORTS BY BROAD ECONOMIC CATEGORY
MOP thousand
Broad economic 2004 2005 Year-on-year
categories Jan. – Jul. Structure % Jan. – Jul. Structure % % change
1 2 3 4 5 6
Total 15 446 051 100.0 16 283 817 100.0 5.4
Consumer goods 5 892 572 38.1 6 081 504 37.3 3.2
Raw materials and 5 969 449 38.6 5 622 602 34.5 -5.8
semi-manufactures
Fuels and lubricants 1 111 124 7.2 1 497 662 9.2 34.8
Capital goods 2 472 905 16.0 3 082 050 18.9 24.6
Note: Due to rounding, the totals may not correspond to the sums of the partial figures.
Meanwhile, Macao’s main suppliers of imported goods still concentrated in the Asian region.
Imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong together constituted 51.2% of the total value of imports.
Compared with the same period of 2004, the value of imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong declined 1.1% and 0.6% respectively. However, total value of imports from the EU and the USA went up 16.0% and 8.4% respectively compared with the same period of 2004. The EU and the USA accounted for 13.7% and 4.4% of the total value of imports respectively.
Table 5
IMPORTS BY MAIN COUNTRY/TERRITORY
MOP thousand
Main countries/ 2004 2005 Year-on-year
territories Jan. – Jul. Structure % Jan. – Jul. Structure % % change
1 2 3 4 5 6
Total 15 446 051 100.0 16 283 817 100.0 5.4
EU 1 928 473 12.5 2 237 107 13.7 16.0
France 530 596 3.4 579 602 3.6 9.2
United Kingdom 261 818 1.7 312 576 1.9 19.4
Germany 514 526 3.3 603 085 3.7 17.2
Portugal 62 025 0.4 72 236 0.4 16.5
USA 656 035 4.2 711 451 4.4 8.4
Mainland China 6 818 656 44.1 6 743 305 41.4 -1.1
Hong Kong 1 607 040 10.4 1 597 931 9.8 -0.6
Taiwan, China 798 068 5.2 692 826 4.3 -13.2
Republic of Korea 473 512 3.1 382 890 2.4 -19.1
Japan 1 451 577 9.4 1 855 385 11.4 27.8
Australia 207 920 1.3 179 216 1.1 -13.8
Others 1 504 770 9.7 1 883 706 11.6 25.2
Note: 1) Due to rounding, the totals may not correspond to the sums of the partial figures.
2) Since May 2004, the number of the EU member states has increased from 15 to 25.
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The following statistical tables can be downloaded from our website
Table 1 - Imports and exports - monthly figures
Table 2 - Domestic exports and re-exports - monthly figures
Table 3 - Imports by section and division of SITC-Rev.3, and country/territory of origin Table 4 - Exports by section and division of SITC-Rev.3, and country/territory of destination
Table 5 - Domestic exports by section and division of SITC-Rev.3, and country/territory of destination Table 6 - Re-exports by section and division of SITC-Rev.3, and country/territory of destination Table 7 - Imports by country/territory of origin, and section and division of SITC-Rev.3 Table 8 - Exports by country/territory of destination and principal commodity
Table 9 - Domestic exports by country/territory of destination and principal commodity Table 10 - Re-exports by country/territory of destination and principal commodity Table 11 - Principal indicators of external trade
Table 12 - Imports and exports by geographical/economic zone and statistical country/territory
Table 13 - Domestic exports and re-exports by geographical/economic zone and statistical country/territory Table 14 - Imports by broad economic category and country/territory of origin
Table 15 - Exports by principal commodity and country/territory of destination
Table 16 - Domestic exports by principal commodity and country/territory of destination Table 17 - Re-exports by principal commodity and country/territory of destination
* Table 18 - Quarterly exports by principal commodity and country/territory of destination
* Table 19 - Quarterly domestic exports by principal commodity and country/territory of destination
* Table 20 - Quarterly re-exports by principal commodity and country/territory of destination
* Table 21 - Quarterly imports by broad economic category and country/territory of origin
* Table 22 - Exports by group of CAM-Rev.1
* Table 23 - Domestic exports by group of CAM-Rev.1
* Table 24 - Re-exports by group of CAM-Rev.1
*Tables are available only in March, June, September and December.
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