The USA and the EU remained as Macao's major export markets, together making up 64.4 percent of the total value of exports. Among this, exports to the USA, which made up 49.3 percent of the total value of exports, decreased 16.7 percent over the same period of 2004; exports to the EU, which made up 15.1 percent of the total value of exports, also decreased 41.7 percent over the same period of 2004.
During the period of January - October 2005, Macao's total value of imports increased 10.8 percent year-on-year, mainly due to a general increase in broad economic categories.
Increases were registered for Fuels & lubricants (42.1 percent), Capital goods (25.2 percent), Consumer goods (6.7 percent) and Raw materials & semi-manufactures (2.1 percent).
Meanwhile, Macao's main suppliers of imported goods still concentrated in the Asian region. Imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong together constituted 52.4 percent of the total value of imports.
Compared with the same period of 2004, the value of imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong rose 5.5 percent and 3.3 percent respectively.
Macau Statistics and Census Service
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