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INCREASES
IN
IN PERCENTAGE TERMS, INDUSTRIES WITH THE LARGEST
1988 WERE: PRODUCTS OF THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN 1989 OVER
EQUIPMENT PETROLEUM AND COAL (+44.7 PER CENT); TRANSPORT
PER (+31.6 CENT); CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+22.5
CENT); MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (+16.4 PER CENT); AND TOBACCO (+14.0 PER CENT).
PER
INDUSTRIES RECORDED DECREASES ON THE OTHER HAND, SEVERAL THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN 1989 AS COMPARED WITH 1988.
IN
-13.9 OR -1.3 (-$213 MILLION -16.7 PER CENT); AND
MILLION (-$130
OR
(-$1,682 MILLION OR AMONG THEM WERE: PLASTIC PRODUCTS PER CENT); ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS (-$721 MILLION PER CENT); BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS OR -2.0 PER CENT); FOOTWEAR (-$206 MILLION OR WOOD AND CORK PRODUCTS, -15.1 PER CENT).
FURNITURE AND
FIXTURES
OUTSIDE THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, DOMESTIC EXPORTS
MILLION FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL FISHING DECREASED BY $22 CENT IN
AS COMPARED WITH 1988, WHILE DOMESTIC ELECTRICITY INCREASED BY $145 MILLION OR 28.2 PER CENT.
1989
ORIGINATING
OR 3.5 PER OF EXPORTS
THE ABOVE STATISTICS ON DOMESTIC EXPORTS ANALYSED BY
ORIGIN ARE INDUSTRIAL
DERIVED BY RE-GROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS UNDER THE EXTERNAL TRADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM ACCORDING TO THE INDUSTRIES IN WHICH ARE NORMALLY PRODUCED. TRANSACTIONS IN GOLD AND SPECIE ARE EXCLUDED.
THESE MERCHANDISE
ITEMS
ITEMS BY INDUSTRIAL NATIONS INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ACTIVITIES (I.S.I.C.), AS
THE CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPORT ORIGIN IS STRUCTURED UPON THE UNITED INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OF ALL ECONOMIC DISTINCT FROM THE UNITED NATIONS CLASSIFICATION (S.I.T.C.) STATISTICS REPORTS.
TRADE REGULAR TRADE
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD WHICH IS ADOPTED IN THE
TO THESE RECLASSIFIED REQUIRE SEVERAL
ITEM IS FINALLY
CAUTION SHOULD BE TAKEN WHEN REFERRING
MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS MAY INTERMEDIATE PROCESSING STAGES IN THEIR PRODUCTION.
STATISTICS. CERTAIN
IN SUCH CASES,
THE INDUSTRY IN WHICH AN PRODUCED IS NOT THE SOLE CONTRIBUTOR TO THE EXPORT VALUE OF THAT ITEM.
HAS WHOLLY BEEN ALLOCATED TO HOWEVER, THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE ITEM THAT INDUSTRY IN THIS RECLASSIFICATION.
TO A BESIDES, THE CLASSIFICATION OF A MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEM PARTICULAR INDUSTRY DOES NOT IMPLY THAT THE ENTIRE EXPORT VALUE OF THE INDUSTRY, SINCE ITEM IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ESTABLISHMENTS OF THAT PART OF THE VALUE MAY BE DUE TO PRODUCTION BY CLASSIFIED UNDER OTHER INDUSTRIES AS SECONDARY PRODUCTS.
ESTABLISHMENTS
FURTHER DETAILS OF MERCHANDISE DOMESTIC INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN IS OBTAINABLE OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS
A TABLE CONTAINING EXPORTS STATISTICS RECLASSIFIED BY FROM THE INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH SECTION DEPARTMENT (ON TEL. 8234832).
A TABLE SHOWING MORE DETAILED BREAKDOWNS OF SIMILAR FOR SELECTED MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IS ALSO INCLUDED IN "HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE, DECEMBER 1989".
STATISTICS THE REPORT
/VALUE OF