Hong Kong Import Growth Slows to 5-Month Low

Imports to Hong Kong rose 11.1% year-on-year to $476.7 billion in June 2025, the slowest pace in five months, easing from an 18.9% gain in May.

Imports rose notably from Vietnam (+50.6%), the United Kingdom (+44.7%), mainland China (+17.3%), Thailand (+15.9%), and the US (+3.9%), while declining from South Korea (-27.1%).

By product category, imports rose across most sectors, led by electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (14.6% vs 23.7% in May), telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing equipment (17.7% vs 14.8%), office machines and automatic data processing machines (9.8% vs 69.4%), miscellaneous manufactured articles (12.6% vs 2.8%), and power-generating machinery and equipment (38.7% vs 22.7%).

In contrast, imports declined in non-metallic mineral manufactures (-15.6% vs -4.1%), professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (-9.4% vs 9.2%), and petroleum and related products (-10.5% vs -9.5%).