Imports to Hong Kong rose 29.9% year-on-year to USD 473 billion in February 2026, easing from January’s 38.1% growth, the strongest since March 2010. This marked the slowest pace of growth since November 2025, as purchases increased for non-ferrous metals (474.8%), telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (67.6%), electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances and electrical parts thereof (30.5%), and power-generating machinery and equipment (24.4%). In contrast, imports declined for professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (-13.3%), petroleum, petroleum products and related materials (-6.4%), and non-metallic mineral manufactures (4%). By source, imports recorded the strongest growth from the United Kingdom (230.6%), India (130.8%), Korea (113.6%), Vietnam (71.6%), Malaysia (31.1%), and the Mainland China (28.2%).