Imports to Hong Kong rose 13.6% year-on-year to a nearly four-year high of $512.5 billion in September 2025, accelerating from an 11.5% gain in August. Purchases increased notably from the United Kingdom (+70.3%), Vietnam (+68.7%), Singapore (+33.2%), Mainland China (+19.4%), and Japan (+12.9%), while imports from Taiwan declined (-19%). By product category, inbound shipments accelerated for miscellaneous manufactured articles (33.6% vs 6.7% in August), professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (27% vs 4.1%), electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (20.3% vs 15.2%), and photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (25.6% vs 10.5%). In contrast, growth slowed for non-metallic mineral manufactures (21.2% vs 26.3%), power generating machinery and equipment (24% vs 37.9%), and telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (18.6% vs 32.4%).