Government of Macao Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service
EXTERNAL MERCHANDISE TRADE STATISTICS
JANUARY/2009 No. 1
The value of total merchandise imports and exports continued to decline. The value of total exports of goods amounted to MOP774 million in January 2009, down significantly by 56.1% year-on-year, with the value of domestic exports decreasing by 65.6% to MOP436 million and that of re-exports dropping by 31.7% to MOP338 million. The value of total imports of goods amounted to MOP2.86 billion, down by 23.5% year-on-year.
The trade deficit for January 2009 was MOP2.08 billion and the exports/imports ratio decreased from 47.3% in January 2008 to 27.1%.
Table 1
PRINCIPAL INDICATORS OF EXTERNAL MERCHANDISE TRADE
’000 MOP
2008 2009 Year-on-year
% Principal indicators
January January January
Exports 1 762 793 773 902 -56.1
Domestic exports 1 268 844 436 400 -65.6
Re-exports 493 949 337 502 -31.7
Imports 3 730 408 2 855 420 -23.5
Trade balance (Exp.-Imp.) -1 967 615 -2 081 518 -5.8
Exports/Imports ratio (%) 47.3 27.1 ..
.. Not applicable
As regards exports of principal commodity, the value of Textile & garment exports reduced by 67.4%
year-on-year to account for 50.1% of the total exports in January 2009; meanwhile, the value of Non-textile exports decreased by 32.8%, with exports of Machines & apparatus, parts & accessories thereof falling by 60.8%, but exports of Jewellery rising by 9.4%.
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Table 2
EXPORTS BY PRINCIPAL COMMODITY
’000 MOP 2008 2009 Principal commodity
January Structure % January Structure %
Year-on-year
%
Total 1 762 793 100.0 773 902 100.0 -56.1
Textile and garment 1 187 316 67.4 387 384 50.1 -67.4
Of which:
Garment, knitted or crocheted 687 094 39.0 239 381 30.9 -65.2
Garment, not knitted or crocheted 440 363 25.0 127 813 16.5 -71.0
Textile fabrics 42 484 2.4 14 769 1.9 -65.2
Textile yarn and thread 12 829 0.7 3 693 0.5 -71.2
Non-textile 575 477 32.6 386 518 49.9 -32.8
Of which:
Machines and apparatus, 116 165 6.6 45 550 5.9 -60.8
parts and accessories thereof
Jewellery 34 082 1.9 37 295 4.8 9.4
Tobacco and wine 30 799 1.7 24 397 3.2 -20.8
Articles of copper 36 032 2.0 16 173 2.1 -55.1
Image and sound appliances 8 480 0.5 8 931 1.2 5.3
Among the major destinations of Macao’s merchandise exports, the USA and the EU together absorbed 43.6% of the total exports of goods in January 2009. The value of exports to the USA and the EU declined notably by 70.7% and 68.8% year-on-year respectively, to account for 31.4% and 12.2% of the total exports.
As regards the Asian region, the value of exports to Mainland China and Hong Kong decreased by 45.3% and 15.9% respectively.
Table 3
EXPORTS BY MAIN COUNTRY / TERRITORY
’000 MOP 2008 2009 Main country /
territory January Structure % January Structure %
Year-on-year
%
Total 1 762 793 100.0 773 902 100.0 -56.1
EU 303 455 17.2 94 648 12.2 -68.8
Of which:
Germany 114 793 6.5 46 193 6.0 -59.8
United Kingdom 69 080 3.9 15 470 2.0 -77.6
France 30 005 1.7 8 815 1.1 -70.6
Italy 24 588 1.4 4 258 0.6 -82.7
USA 828 352 47.0 242 790 31.4 -70.7
Hong Kong 255 596 14.5 214 862 27.8 -15.9
Mainland China 151 491 8.6 82 848 10.7 -45.3
Vietnam 11 080 0.6 16 470 2.1 48.6
Taiwan, China 16 613 0.9 12 672 1.6 -23.7
Mexico 16 191 0.9 10 712 1.4 -33.8
Japan 18 013 1.0 8 211 1.1 -54.4
Others 162 002 9.2 90 689 11.7 -44.0
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In January 2009, the value of total imports of goods dropped by 23.5% year-on-year. In terms of broad economic categories, the value of imports of all categories registered year-on-year decreases, of which Raw materials & semi-manufactures dropped by 45.1%, Capital goods fell by 27.0% and Consumer goods slid by 15.5%.
Table 4
IMPORTS BY BROAD ECONOMIC CATEGORY
’000 MOP 2008 2009 Broad economic
category January Structure % January Structure %
Year-on-year
%
Total 3 730 408 100.0 2 855 420 100.0 -23.5
Consumer goods 1 785 617 47.9 1 509 044 52.8 -15.5
Capital goods 767 636 20.6 560 053 19.6 -27.0
Raw materials and 828 545 22.2 454 742 15.9 -45.1
semi-manufactures
Fuels and lubricants 348 609 9.3 331 581 11.6 -4.9
In the total imports of Consumer goods, the value of imports of Household consumption reduced by 6.4% year-on-year to account for 27.8%, and the value of imports of Other consumer goods (67.6% of the total) registered a year-on-year decrease of 15.5%. Among Other consumer goods, the value of imports of semi-durable consumer goods (e.g. clothing and footwear), durable consumer goods (e.g. jewellery and watches) and non-durable consumer goods (e.g. tobacco and skin-care products) fell by 30.9%, 11.4% and 1.7% respectively.
Table 5
IMPORTS OF CONSUMER GOODS
’000 MOP 2008 2009 Principal category
of consumer goods January Structure % January Structure %
Year-on-year
%
Total 1 785 617 100.0 1 509 044 100.0 -15.5
Household consumption (food and beverages)
448 900 25.1 420 110 27.8 -6.4
Passenger motor cars
& motorcycles
129 488 7.3 68 805 4.6 -46.9
Other consumer goods 1 207 230 67.6 1 020 129 67.6 -15.5
Durable consumer goods 464 187 26.0 411 175 27.2 -11.4
Semi-durable consumer goods 415 587 23.3 286 993 19.0 -30.9
Non-durable consumer goods 327 456 18.3 321 961 21.3 -1.7
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Within the imports of Raw materials & semi-manufactures, the value of construction materials (18.7% of the total) fell by 68.0% year-on-year and that of textile materials (13.0% of the total) decreased by 67.9%.
Table 6
IMPORTS OF RAW MATERIALS & SEMI-MANUFACTURES
’000 MOP 2008 2009 Principal category of raw
materials & semi-manufactures January Structure % January Structure %
Year-on-year
%
Total 828 545 100.0 454 742 100.0 -45.1
Of which:
Construction materials 266 391 32.2 85 147 18.7 -68.0
Textile materials 183 730 22.2 58 946 13.0 -67.9
Raw materials and semi-manufactures for furskins, paper and plastics
60 995 7.4 36 209 8.0 -40.6
Semi-manufactures of machinery and electrical machines
25 707 3.1 29 222 6.4 13.7
Copper and aluminium materials and semi-manufactures thereof
37 881 4.6 17 217 3.8 -54.6
Glass materials 36 486 4.4 10 655 2.3 -70.8
The value of imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong together absorbed 39.6% of the total imports in January 2009. Compared with January 2008, the value of imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong dropped by 44.5% and 17.4% respectively, but that from the EU and the USA grew by 1.5% and 31.7%
respectively.
Table 7
IMPORTS BY MAIN COUNTRY / TERRITORY
’000 MOP 2008 2009 Main country /
territory January Structure % January Structure %
Year-on-year
%
Total 3 730 408 100.0 2 855 420 100.0 -23.5
EU 691 419 18.5 701 774 24.6 1.5
Of which:
France 206 562 5.5 257 163 9.0 24.5
Italy 73 846 2.0 219 212 7.7 196.8
Germany 101 252 2.7 68 981 2.4 -31.9
United Kingdom 61 417 1.6 46 285 1.6 -24.6
Mainland China 1 486 500 39.8 824 705 28.9 -44.5
Hong Kong 368 931 9.9 304 921 10.7 -17.4
Japan 337 500 9.0 198 553 7.0 -41.2
Switzerland 179 628 4.8 184 760 6.5 2.9
USA 117 205 3.1 154 386 5.4 31.7
Singapore 128 729 3.5 138 026 4.8 7.2
Taiwan, China 112 152 3.0 90 105 3.2 -19.7
Republic of Korea 43 095 1.2 36 076 1.3 -16.3
Thailand 42 582 1.1 34 864 1.2 -18.1
Others 222 667 6.0 187 250 6.6 -15.9
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The following statistical tables are available for download from our website
Table 1 − Changes of external merchandise trade Table 2 − Imports and exports of goods by month
Table 3 − Domestic exports and re-exports of goods by month
Table 4 − Imports by section and division of SITC-Rev. 4, and country/territory of origin Table 5 − Exports by section and division of SITC-Rev. 4, and country/territory of destination Table 6 − Imports by country/territory of origin, and section and division of SITC-Rev. 4 Table 7 − Exports by country/territory of destination and principal commodity
Table 8 − Imports and exports by geographical/economic zone and country/territory
Table 9 − Domestic exports and re-exports by geographical/economic zone and country/territory Table 10 − Imports by broad economic category and country/territory of origin
Table 11 − Exports by principal commodity and country/territory of destination
* Table 12 − Quarterly exports by principal commodity and country/territory of destination
* Table 13 − Quarterly imports by broad economic category and country/territory of origin
* Table 14 − Exports by group of CAM-Rev. 1 * Available in March, June, September and December.
Note: Due to rounding, the total may not correspond to the sum of the partial figures in the statistical tables.
