Exchange Rates and the Effective Exchange Rate Indices

Item	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004

Average for the year?
Australian Dollar	4.53	4.04	4.25	5.08	5.73
Belgian Franc?	0.178	0.173	-	-	-
Canadian Dollar	5.25	5.04	4.97	5.58	6.00
Chinese Renminbi (per HKD100)	106.17	106.04	105.84	105.86	106.21
Deutsche Mark?	3.68	3.57	-	-	-
Dutch Guilder?	3.27	3.17	-	-	-
Euro?	7.20	6.99	7.38	8.81	9.69
French Franc?	1.10	1.07	-	-	-
Italian Lira?	0.0037	0.0036	-	-	-
Japanese Yen	0.0723	0.0643	0.0625	0.0673	0.072
Malaysian Ringgit	2.04	2.04	2.04	2.04	2.04
New Taiwan Dollar	0.248	0.232	0.229	0.227	0.233
Philippine Peso	0.18	0.157	0.156	0.146	0.14
Pound Sterling	11.81	11.24	11.73	12.73	14.27
Republic of Korea Won	0.0069	0.0060	0.0063	0.0065	0.0068
Singapore Dollar	4.52	4.36	4.36	4.47	4.61
Swiss Franc	4.62	4.63	5.03	5.79	6.28
Thai Baht	0.194	0.175	0.182	0.188	0.193
US Dollar	7.791	7.799	7.799	7.787	7.788
SDR	10.27532	9.92836	10.10470	10.90920	11.53777
Effective Exchange Rate Indices
for the Hong Kong dollar?
(January 2000=100)
Trade (import	101.7	104.7	104.0	100.7	98.3
and export)-weighted
Import-weighted	101.5	105.1	104.7	101.6	99.2
Export-weighted?	101.9	104.3	103.3	99.8	97.3
As at end of year?
Australian Dollar	4.35	3.99	4.41	5.83	6.06
Belgian Franc?	0.182	0.171	-	-	-
Canadian Dollar	5.20	4.90	4.95	6.00	6.46
Chinese Renminbi (per HKD100)	106.04	106.04	105.82	106.67	106.38
Deutsche Mark?	3.76	3.53	-	-	-
Dutch Guilder?	3.33	3.13	-	-	-
Euro?	7.34	6.91	8.17	9.77	10.6
French Franc?	1.12	1.05	-	-	-
Italian Lira?	0.0038	0.0036	-	-	-
Japanese Yen	0.0682	0.0594	0.0657	0.0726	0.0758
Malaysian Ringgit	2.04	2.04	2.04	2.04	2.05
New Taiwan Dollar	0.238	0.226	0.228	0.227	0.242
Philippine Peso	0.168	0.159	0.150	0.143	0.143
Pound Sterling	11.64	11.31	12.51	13.83	14.99
Republic of Korea Won	0.0062	0.0060	0.0066	0.0065	0.0075
Singapore Dollar	4.50	4.21	4.49	4.57	4.77
Swiss Franc	4.84	4.67	5.61	6.27	6.86
Thai Baht	0.180	0.177	0.181	0.196	0.199
US Dollar	7.796	7.797	7.798	7.763	7.774
SDR	10.16140	9.79010	10.60154	11.53559	12.07310
Effective Exchange Rate Indices
for the Hong Kong dollar?
(January 2000=100)
Trade (import and export)-weighted	102.9	105.9	102.0	98.8	96.0
Import-weighted	103.2	106.7	102.7	99.8	96.8
Export-weighted?	102.6	105.1	101.2	97.7	95.2

Notes: Hong Kong Dollar is the legal tender in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, as stated in "The Basic Law of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China". Foreign currency refers to any currency other than the Hong Kong currency.
Accordingly Chinese Renminbi is also treated as foreign currency.
?Figures are the averages of the daily closing middle-market telegraphic transfer rates or notes rates for the year.
?Euro is a unified European currency launched on 1 January 1999. As from 1 January 2002, Euro notes and coins have replaced notes and
coins in national currencies of participating countries of the Euro.
?New series released since 2 January 2002. For details, please see the feature article entitled "New Series of Effective Exchange Rate Index
for the Hong Kong Dollar" in the December 2001 issue of the "Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics".
?Including re-exports and domestic exports.
?Figures are the closing middle-market telegraphic transfer rates or notes rates as at the last trading day of the year.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the National Bureau Of Statistics of the The Peoples Republic Of China and are subject to revision by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.

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