Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that total merchandise export for September 2012 amounted to MOP743 million, up by 40.2% year-on-year, attributable to a 65.7% surge in re-exports (MOP573 million), but domestic exports (MOP170 million) decreased by 7.7%. Total merchandise import amounted to MOP6.11 billion, up by 10.2% year-on-year. Merchandise trade deficit amounted to MOP5.36 billion for September 2012. In the third quarter of 2012, total value of merchandise export (MOP2.20 billion) and merchandise import (MOP17.94 billion) increased by 33.0% and 7.6% respectively year-on-year, resulting in a trade deficit of MOP15.74 billion. In the first nine months of 2012, total value of merchandise export increased by 21.6% year-on-year to MOP6.14 billion, of which value of re-exports (MOP4.40 billion) increased by 33.5%, but that of domestic exports (MOP1.75 billion) decreased by 0.7%; meanwhile, total value of merchandise import increased by 18.1% to MOP52.45 billion. Merchandise trade deficit for the first nine months of 2012 amounted to MOP46.31 billion. From January to September 2012, merchandise export to Hong Kong (MOP3.15 billion) and Mainland China (MOP984 million) increased by 45.1% and 21.1% respectively year-on-year, while export to the USA (MOP381 million) and the EU (MOP244 million) decreased by 10.4% and 17.1% respectively. Exports of Non-textiles (MOP5.33 billion) in the first nine months of 2012 expanded by 33.2% year-on-year, of which exports of Machines & apparatus, parts & accessories thereof (MOP1.10 billion) and Articles for casino (MOP271 million) surged by 163.6% and 40.6% respectively; yet, exports of Textiles & garments (MOP812 million) decreased by 22.7%. Domestic exports of Tobacco & wine (MOP404 million) rose by 26.3%, while exports of Knitted or crocheted garments (MOP257 million) declined by 26.3%. Re-exports of Machines & apparatus, parts & accessories thereof (MOP1.09 billion) increased by 166.4%. In the first nine months of 2012, merchandise import from Mainland China (MOP16.98 billion) and the EU (MOP12.30 billion) increased by 23.9% and 12.3% respectively year-on-year. Imports of Consumer goods rose by 19.1% to MOP32.16 billion, with imports of Gold jewellery (MOP5.64 billion), Watches (MOP3.93 billion) and Motor cars & motorcycles (MOP2.42 billion) increasing by 28.1%, 40.8% and 44.5% respectively. Moreover, imports of Capital goods (MOP9.45 billion) registered a year-on-year increase of 19.4%. External merchandise trade reached MOP58.60 billion in the first nine months of 2012, up by 18.5% compared with MOP49.46 billion a year earlier.
