The USA and the EU remained as Macao's major export markets, together making up 66.7 percent of the total value of exports. Among this, exports to the USA, which made up 49.6 percent of the total value of exports, increased 54.8 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 102.5 percent over the same period of 2005.
During the period of January – April 2006, Macao's total value of imports grew 29.1percent year-on-year, mainly due to the increase in the value of imports by broad economic categories, namely Fuels & lubricants (44.3 percent), Consumer goods (30.4 percent), Capital goods (25.8 percent) and Raw materials & semi-manufactures (25.4percent).
Meanwhile, Macao's main suppliers of imported goods still concentrated in the Asian region. Imports from Mainland China and Hong Kong together constituted 54.4 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 47.2 percent and 30.0 percent respectively.
Macau - Statistics and Census Service
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