Macau’s total merchandise import went up by 13.3% year-on-year to 12 billion patacas in September 2021, while total merchandise export amounted to 981 million patacas, up by 5.8% year on year, the special administrative region’s (SAR) statistical service said on Thursday.
The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that the import of articles for casino, gold jewelry, watches and handbags and wallets swelled by 404.3%, 213. %, 89% and 78.9% respectively, whereas that of beauty, cosmetic and skincare products and perfumes declined by 39.8% and 11.8% respectively.
The value of re-exports grew 3.7% to 783 million patacas in September, with that of perfumes and diamond and diamond jewelry surging by 247.8% and 125.5% respectively. Meanwhile, the value of domestic exports increased by 14.9% to 198 million patacas, the DSEC report added.
The merchandise trade deficit in September totaled 11.02 billion patacas.
In the third quarter of 2021, the total value of merchandise export and merchandise import grew by 10% and 49.5% year-on-year to 3.17 billion patacas and 39.53 billion patacas respectively, resulting in a trade deficit of 36.36 billion patacas. MDT/Xinhua
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