The USA and the EU remained as Macao's major export markets, together making up 69.7 percent of the total value of exports. Among this, exports to the USA, which made up 51.4 percent of the total value of exports, increased 47.3 percent over the same period of 2005; exports to the EU, which made up 18.3 percent of the total value of exports, also increased 58.4 percent over the same period of 2005.
During the period of January - February 2006, Macao's total value of imports increased 27.6 percent year-on-year, mainly due to the increase in the value of imports by broad economic categories, namely Fuels & lubricants (63.6 percent), Capital goods (29.3 percent), Consumer goods (23.9 percent) and Raw materials & semi-manufactures (21.0 percent).
Meanwhile, Macao's main suppliers of imported goods still concentrated in the Asian region. Imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong together constituted 51.7 percent of the total value of imports.
Compared with the same period of 2005, the value of imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong rose 42.2 percent and 24.7 percent respectively.
Macau - Statistics and Census Service
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