SERVING SISTERS
MISS LAU PIR-SA]
MRS LUI CHAN SIL –KING MISS MA KA-BAY
MISS WO0 LAI-KUEN
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,
1989
3RD QUARTER EXPORTS STATISTICS RE-CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN
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AND
OF THE VALUE THE SIX MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY GROUPS IN TERMS OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989 WERE: ELECTRICAL
KNITTING; WEARING APPAREL, ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS; TEXTILES, INCLUDING
PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL EQUIPMENT; EXCEPT FOOTWEAR AND KNITWEAR; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; AND BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS.
THIS IS SHOWN BY STATISTICS RELEASED
TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE
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CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
THE TOTAL VALUE
THEY TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR 82.5 PER CENT OF OF MERCHANDISE DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989.
THE LARGEST INCREASES IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES WITH
THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1988 ABSOLUTE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OVER WERE: TEXTILES, INCLUDING KNITTING (+$1,577 MILLION); WEARING APPAREL,
PROFESSIONAL MILLION}; EXCEPT FOOTWEAR AND KNITWEAR (+$686
MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL OPTICAL EQUIPMENT (+$284 MILLION); (+$238 MILLION); CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+$147 MILLION); TOBACCO (+$109 MILLION).
TEXTILES,
AND
AND
INCREASES IN IN PERCENTAGE TERMS, INDUSTRIES WITH THE LARGEST
QUARTER OF 1988 WERE: THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OVER THE THIRD
KNITTING (+13. INCLUDING
PER 4 TOBACCO (+27.0 PER CENT);
CENT); AND CHEMICALS CENT); MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (+13.2 PER AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+13.0 PER CENT).
RECORDED INDUSTRIES
ON THE OTHER HAND, SEVERAL THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE THIRD QUARTER WITH THE SAME QUARTER OF 1988.
ELECTRONIC
DECREASES IN
OF 1989 COMPARED
PRODUCTS (-$1,026 MILLION OR -17.8 (-8231 MILLION
AMONG THEM WERE: ELECTRICAL AND MILLION OR -6.8 PER CENT); PLASTIC PRODUCTS (-$628 PER CENT); BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS OR -8.1 PER CENT); AND FOOTWEAR (-8107 MILLION OR -29.0 PER CENT).
ORIGINATING
4.8
OUTSIDE THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, DOMESTIC EXPORTS
MILLION 16
OR
PER FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL FISHING DECREASED BY
WHILE DOMESTIC EXPORTS CENT COMPARED WITH THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1988, OF ELECTRICITY INCREASED BY $36 MILLION OR 22.3 PER CENT.
/THE ABOVE