Hong Kong Imports Surge 16.5% in July

Imports to Hong Kong rose 16.5% year-on-year to $480.4 billion in July 2025, accelerating from an 11.1% gain in June.

Imports rose notably from Vietnam (+129.3%), Thailand (+33.1%), Singapore (+28.7%), the United Kingdom (+24.8%), Japan (+22.3%) and the mainland of China (+16.3%), while imports from the US (-8.8%) declined.

By product category, imports rose across most sectors, led by electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (21.9% vs 14.6% in June), telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing equipment (49.8% vs 17.7%), office machines and automatic data processing machines (0.7% vs 9.8%), miscellaneous manufactured articles (12.4% vs 12.6%), power-generating machinery and equipment (29.1% vs 38.7%), and non-metallic mineral manufactures (7.1% vs -15.6%).

In contrast, imports declined in professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (-11.9% vs -9.4%), and petroleum and related products (-3.4% vs -10.5%).