MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1988
1987 EXPORTS STATISTICS BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN PUBLISHED
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GROUPS IN TERMS OF
VALUE
THE OF THE TOTAL
THE SIX MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR 84 PER CENT VALUE OF HONG KONG'S DOMESTIC MERCHANDISE EXPORTS IN 1987.
AND ELECTRONIC ELECTRICAL WERE: GROUPS THE SIX INDUSTRY
AND OPTICAL PROFESSIONAL APPAREL. WEARING PRODUCTS, TEXTILES,
METALS AND FABRICATED METAL EQUIPMENT, PLASTIC PRODUCTS, AND BASIC PRODUCTS.
THIS IS
BY SHOWN
STATISTICS,
RELEASED
BY
BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (MONDAY), ON DOMESTIC EXPORTS ANALYSED INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN FOR 1987.
TRADE
MERCHANDISE SYSTEM ARE
THIS SERIES IS DERIVED BY REGROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT
CLASSIFICATION EXPORT ITEMS UNDER THE PRESENT EXTERNAL
IN WHICH THESE MERCHANDISE ITEMS ACCORDING TO THE INDUSTRIES NORMALLY PRODUCED. TRANSACTIONS IN GOLD AND SPECIE ARE EXCLUDED.
AMONG ALL MANUFACTURING
INCREASES
IN
ABSOLUTE
MILLION),
AND ELECTRICAL
VALUE OVER
ELECTRONIC
BASIC
LARGEST
(+$10,554
MILLION),
EQUIPMENT
METAL
PRODUCTS
THOSE WITH THE INDUSTRIES,
WERE: 1986
TEXTILES (+$8,980 PRODUCTS WEARING APPAREL (+$7,616 MILLION), PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL
METALS AND FABRICATED (+$2,954 MILLION) AND (+$2,026 MILLION).
THE LARGEST INCREASES WITH INDUSTRIES IN PERCENTAGE TERMS,
MACHINERY, OVER 1986 WERE LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS (+69 PER CENT),
AND CHEMICALS EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (+57 PER CENT), (+56 PER CENT) AND TOBACCO (+40 PER CENT).
1 N
ON THE OTHER HAND, A DECREASE
RECORDED 1986 WAS TERMS COMPARED WITH INDUSTRY (-$12 MILLION OR -8 PER CENT).
CHEMICAL PRODUCTS
EXPORTS DOMESTIC IN THE TRANSPORT
BESIDES THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, DOMESTIC EXPORTS
AND LIVESTOCK
POULTIS
PRODUCTION MILLION
FROM AGRICULTURAL, SUBSTANTIAL PERCENTAGE INCREASE OVER 1986 CENT). THOSE FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL FISHING ROSE BY +40 PER CENT).
THE CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPORT
NATIONS ORIGIN IS STRUCTURED UPON THE UNITED INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OF ALL ECONOM ||
$150
IN
VALUE EQUIPMENT
ORIGINATING RECORDED A OR +85 PER MILLION OR
ITEMS BY INTERNATIONAL
SITIVITIES (ISIC).
INDUSTRIAL
STANDARD
/THIS IS