APPENDICES
APPENDIX 21
(Chapter 6: 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
1996
1997
1998
Meat and meat preparations
11.656
12,908
12,506
Dairy products and birds' eggs
4,280
4,226
3.692
Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, and preparations thereof
14,807
16,173
12,440
Vegetables and fruit
12,917
13.623
12,348
Miscellaneous edible products and preparations
5,513
6,188
5,161
Others
12,800
12,876
11,236
Sub-total
Beverages and tobacco
Beverages
61.972
65,993
57,483
7,706
8,746
6,752
Tobacco and tobacco manufactures
11.137
6,952
5,276
Sub-total
18.844
15,697
12,028
Crude materials, inedible, except fuels
Hides, skins and furskins, raw
4,762
3,900
3,499
Cork and wood
3.570
5,179
5.511
Textile fibres (other than wool tops and other combed wool) and their wastes
(not manufactured into yarn or fabric)
9.197
8,271
6,472
Crude animal and vegetable materials, n.e.s.
4,329
3,875
3,093
Others
9,571
9,290
6,026
Sub-total
31,429
30,515
24,601
Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials
Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials
27,469
24,034
17,143
Others
7,176
7,770
7,653
Sub-total
34,644
31,803
24,795
Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes
Fixed vegetable fats and oils, crude, refined or fractionated Others
4,199
7,274
7,824
236
309
305
Sub-total
4,435
7,583
8,128
Chemicals and related products, n.e.s.
Organic chemicals
13.468
12,351
10,684
Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials
9,780
9,945
8,667
Plastics in primary forms
Plastics in non-primary forms
37,811
38.138
33,668
11,897
12,055
9,591
Others
32,506
32,108
28,609
Sub-total
105,461
104,598
91,219
Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material
Textile yarn, fabrics, made-up articles, n.e.s. and related products
127,730
125,460
104,439
Non-metallic mineral manufactures, n.e.s.
43,391
44,679
35,496
Iron and steel
31,407
30,612
27,415
Non-ferrous metals
25,506
27,332
25,357
Others
80,660
83,820
71,440
Sub-total
308,694
311,903
264,148
Machinery and transport equipment
Office machines and automatic data processing machines
81,382
100,029
103,145
Telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment Electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, n.e.s., and electrical parts thereof Others
141,033
152,377
130,886
195,942
219,701
195,561
150,499
151,558
133,222
Sub-total
568,856
623,665
562,814
Miscellaneous manufactured articles
Articles of apparel and clothing accessories
105,419
116,277
110,744
Footwear
56,734
57,243
44,982
Photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies and optical goods, n.e.s.; watches and clocks Miscellaneous manufactured articles, n.e.s.
62,745
62,937
54,627
108,193
115,497
107,691
Others
61,491
64,835
60,242
Sub-total
394,582
416,788
378,286
Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC
Merchandise total
6,665
1,535,582
6,545
1,615,090
5,589
1,429,092
Gold and specie
Grand total
21,431
36,446
1,557,013
1,651,536
17,611
1,446,703
449