{"id":513065,"date":"2026-06-27T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/513065\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T02:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:06:07","slug":"hong-kong-exports-rise-by-nearly-41-in-may-as-ai-keeps-fuelling-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/513065\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong exports rise by nearly 41% in May as AI keeps fuelling demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The recent bumper growth in Hong Kong exports spilled into May as they expanded by 40.8 per cent year on year, with artificial intelligence-related products continuing to fuel already robust overseas demand.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Provisional figures released by the Census and Statistics Department on Thursday showed that the total value of exports rose to HK$611.2 billion (US$77.95 billion) last month, following a nearly 43 per cent increase in April.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The May figure marked the second month in a row that export growth exceeded 40 per cent, edging close to the best performing month in decades \u2013 the 44 per cent expansion recorded in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Imports, meanwhile, grew by 42 per cent to HK$655.4 billion in May, resulting in a trade deficit of HK$44.2 billion for the month, equivalent to 6.7 per cent of the value of imports.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For the first five months of 2026, total exports rose by 36.2 per cent compared with the same period last year, while imports grew by 39.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A government spokesman said that the robust expansion in exports in May was underpinned by strong global demand for AI-related electronic products with exports to most major markets registering notable growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent bumper growth in Hong Kong exports spilled into May as they expanded by 40.8 per cent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[235283,114,184,235282,85,4425,46,55363],"class_list":["post-513065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai-products","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong-exports","tag-il","tag-imports","tag-israel","tag-trade-deficit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}