The USA and the EU remained as Macao's major export markets, together making up 68.2 percent of the total value of exports.
Among this, exports to the USA, which made up 51.1 percent of the total value of exports, increased 52.3 percent over the same period of 2005; exports to the EU, which made up 17.1 percent of the total value of exports, also increased 77.6 percent over the same period of 2005.
During the period of January – March 2006, Macao's total value of imports increased 28.3 percent year-on-year, mainly due to the increase in the value of imports by broad economic categories, namely Fuels & lubricants (50.1 percent), Capital goods (28.8 percent), Consumer goods (28.1 percent) and Raw materials & semi-manufactures (22.4 percent).
Meanwhile, Macao's main suppliers of imported goods still concentrated in the Asian region.
Imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong together constituted 53.0 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 44.8 percent and 26.1 percent respectively.
Macau - Statistics and Census Service
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