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APPENDICES
APPENDIX 21
(Chapter 7: Trade and Industry)
Hong Kong's External Trade Analysed by Standard International Trade Classification Revision 3 (SITC Rev. 3)
Imports
Section/division
Food and live animals
$ Million
1995
1996
1997
Meat and meal preparations
10,677
11,656
12,908
Dairy products and birds' eggs
3,704
4,280
4.226
Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, and preparations thereof
14,088
14,807
16,173
Vegetables and fruit
12,592
12,917
13,623
Miscellaneous edible products and preparations
4,922
5,513
6,188
Others
Sub-total
Beverages and tobacco
Beverages
Tobacco and tobacco manufactures
Sub-total
12,213
12,800
12,876
58,195
61,972
65,993
8,148
7,706
8,746
10,846
I1,137
6,952
18.995
18,844
15,697
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels
Hides, skins and furskins, raw
4,094
4,762
3,900
Cork and wood
2,826
3,570
5,179
Textile fibres (other than wool tops and other combed wool) and their wastes
(not manufactured into yarn or fabric)
10,392
9,197
8,271
Metalliferous ores and metal scrap
5,458
4,997
4,651
Others
Sub-total
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials
9,627
8,903
8,515
32,398
31,429
30,515
Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials
22.143
27,469
24,034
Others
6,517
7,176
7,770
Sub-total
28,660
34,644
31,803
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes
Fixed vegetable fats and oils, crudc, refined or fractionated Others
4,002
4,199
7,274
251
236
309
Sub-total
4,253
4,435
7,583
Chemicals and related products, n.e.s.
Organic chemicals
14,767
13,468
12,351
Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials
Plastics in primary forms
Plastics in non-primary forms
Others
Sub-total
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material
8,882
9,780
9,945
44,078
37.811
38,138
11,570
11,897
12,055
32,480
32,506
32,108
111,777
105,461
104,598
Textile yarn, fabrics, made-up articles, n.e.s. and related products Non-metallic mineral manufactures, n.c.s.
Iron and steel
130,422
127,730
125,460
43,960
43,391
44,679
28,806
31,407
30,612
Non-ferrous metals
Others
24,237
25,506
27,332
78,164
80,660
83,820
Sub-total
305,588
308,694
311,903
Machinery and transport equipment
Office machines and automatic data processing machines
68,737
81,382
100,029
Telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment Electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, n.e.s., and electrical parts thereof Others
145,976
141,033
152,377
185,943
195,942
219,701
153,260
150,499
151,558
Sub-total
Miscellaneous manufactured articles
553,915
568,856
623,665
Articles of apparel and clothing accessories
97,886
105,419
116,277
Footwear
52,715
56,734
57,243
Photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies and optical goods, n.e.s.; watches and clocks Miscellaneous manufactured articles, n.e.s.
62,759
62,745
62,937
104,051
108,193
115,497
Others
54,983
61,491
64,835
Sub-total
372,394
394,582
416.788
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC
4,946
Merchandise total
1,491,121 .
6,665
1,535,582
6,545
1,615,090
Gold and specie
Grand total
25,851
21,431
36,446
1,516,972
1,557,013
1,651,536
Notes: (1)
For coverage of Hong Kong's external trade statistics, please refer to footnote (1) of Appendix 20. n.e.s.=not elsewhere specified.