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ON THE OTHER HAND, SEVERAL INDUSTRIES RECORDED DECREASES IN THE AS COMPARED OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1990
VALUR WITH THE SAME QUARTER OF 1989.
(-$981 PRODUCTS
PRODUCTS ELECTRONIC AMONG THEM WERE: ELECTRICAL AND MILLION OR -8.3 PER CENT); BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL (-$416 MILLION OR 17.1 PER CENT); PLASTIC PRODUCTS (-$269 MILLION OR -12.2 -11.8 PER CENT); MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (-$219 MILLION OR
(-$110 MILLION OR PER CENT); AND PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL EQUIPMENT -2.4 PER CENT).
OUTSIDE THE
MANUFACTURING
EXPORTS
INDUSTRY, DOMESTIC ORIGINATING FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL FISHING DECREASED BY $60 MILLION OR WHILE 31.1 PER CENT AS COMPARED WITH THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989,
PER DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF ELECTRICITY DECREASED BY $27 MILLION OR 17.5 CENT.
THE ABOVE STATISTICS ON DOMESTIC EXPORTS ANALYSED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN ARE DERIVED BY RE-GROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS UNDER THE EXTERNAL TRADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM ACCORDING TO
PRODUCED. INDUSTRIES IN WHICH THESE MERCHANDISE ITEMS ARE NORMALLY TRANSACTIONS IN GOLD AND SPECIE ARE EXCLUDED.
BY INDUSTRIAL STANDARD (I.S.I.C.), AS
THE CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS ORIGIN IS STRUCTURED UPON THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OF ALL ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
NATIONS STANDARD
IS ADOPTED
DISTINCT CLASSIFICATION STATISTICS REPORTS,
FROM THE
(S.I.T.C.)
UNITED
WHICH
INTERNATIONAL IN THE
REGULAR
TRADE TRADE
RE-CLASSIFIED
MAY REQUIRE SEVERAL
CAUTION SHOULD BE TAKEN WHEN REFERRING TO THESE
MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS STATISTICS. CERTAIN INTERMEDIATE PROCESSING STAGES IN THEIR PRODUCTION.
IS ITEM
FINALLY
IN SUCH
THE CASES,
INDUSTRY IN WHICH AN PRODUCED IS NOT THE SOLE CONTRIBUTOR TO THE EXPORT VALUE OF THAT ITEM. HOWEVER, THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE ITEM HAS WHOLLY BEEN ALLOCATED TO THAT INDUSTRY IN THIS RE-CLASSIFICATION.
BESIDES,
A THE CLASSIFICATION OF A MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEM TO PARTICULAR INDUSTRY DOES NOT IMPLY THAT THE ENTIRE EXPORT VALUE OF THE INDUSTRY, SINCE ITEM IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ESTABLISHMENTS OF THAT
ΤΟ
BY VALUE
BE DUE OF THE CLASSIFIED UNDER OTHER INDUSTRIES AS SECONDARY PRODUCTS.
PART
MAY
PRODUCTION
DOMESTIC
ESTABLISHMENTS
EXPORTS
STATISTICS
FURTHER DETAILS OF MERCHANDISE RE-CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN MAY BE FOUND IN THE ATTACHED TABLE WHICH IS OBTAINABLE FROM THE INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (ON TEL. 823 4832).
A TABLE SHOWING MORE DETAILED BREAKDOWNS OF SIMILAR FOR SELECTED MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE "HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE, MARCH 1990".
STATISTICS
REPORT
/VALUE OF