The volume of Hong Kong's goods exports in November 2009 rose by 1.4 percent year on year, while import volume rose 7.4 percent, local statistical authorities said Tuesday.

The prices of goods exports rose 0.5 percent. The prices of re-exports rose 0.7 percent, while those of domestic exports fell 1.2 percent, according to the Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government.

For the first 11 months a whole, the volume of goods exports fell 13.7 percent, while that of goods imports dropped 11.5 percent.

Statistics released earlier by the Census and Statistics Department had showed that the value of Hong Kong's goods exports in November rose 1.3 percent year on year, the first year-on-year rise since October 2008.