FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1991
1990 DOMESTIC EXPORTS STATISTICS RE-CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN PUBLISHED
(FRIDAY) BY THE ACCORDING ΤΟ THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY
MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT, THE SIX
EXPORTS IN 1990 WERE: GROUPS IN TERMS OF THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC
TEXTILES, INCLUDING KNITTING; ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS; WEARING APPAREL,
FOOTWEAR AND KNITWEAR; EXCEPT OPTICAL EQUIPMENT; BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL PLASTIC PRODUCTS.
AND PROFESSIONAL
PRODUCTS; AND
THEY TOGETHER
ACCOUNTED FOR
OF 80.8%
THE TOTAL
VALUR OF
MERCHANDISE DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN 1990.
IN THB MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES WITH THE LARGEST INCREASES
PROFESSIONAL AND VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN 1990 OVER 1989 WERE :
CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS OPTICAL EQUIPMENT (+$1,825 MILLION);
AND PAPER
PAPER (+$1,281 MILLION);
(+$1,004 MILLION); TOBACCO PRODUCTS, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING (+$642 MILLION); TEXTILES, INCLUDING KNITTING (+$249 MILLION); AND FOOD (+$246 MILLION).
TERMS, PERCENTAGE
IN
TOBACCO (+49.9%);
MANUFACTURING
THE 1989
WITH INDUSTRIES LARGEST INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN 1990 OVER WERE :
CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+27.4%); PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FOOD (+14.9%); AND PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS, (+11.8%).
IN EXPORTS
ON
RECORDED COMPARED
MILLION
THE OTHER HAND, A NUMBER OF DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC
WITH 1989. AMONG THEM WERE :
BASIC METALS OR -16.7%);
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
1990 AS
(-$1,629
AND
PLASTIC PRODUCTS METAL FABRICATED
PRODUCTS (-$1,069 MILLION OR -10.5%); ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS (-$435 MILLION OR -0.8%); AND MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (~$233 MILLION OR -3.0%).
INDUSTRIES,
OR
EXPORTS DOMESTIC
OF
DOMESTIC EXPORTS OUTSIDE THE MANUFACTURING ORIGINATING FROM THE FISHING INDUSTRY DECREASED BY $51 MILLION
WHILE 8.5% IN
COMPARED WITH 1989, IN 1990 AS ELECTRICITY INCREASED BY $112 MILLION OR 16.9%.
THE
STATISTICS
ON
DOMESTIC
EXPORTS
ANALYSED
BY
ABOVE INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN ARE DERIVED BY RE-GROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS UNDER THE EXTERNAL TRADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM ACCORDING ITEMS ARE NORMALLY INDUSTRIES IN TO THE
WHICH THESE MERCHANDISE PRODUCED. TRANSACTIONS IN GOLD AND SPECIE ARE EXCLUDED.
THE
DISTINCT FROM
CLASSIFICATION
THE (S.I.T.C.)
UNITED
WHICH
CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS ORIGIN IS STRUCTURED UPON THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL
CLASSIFICATION OF ALL INDUSTRIAL
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES (I.S.I.C.), AS NATIONS STANDARD
IS ADOPTED IN
BY INDUSTRIAL STANDARD
INTERNATIONAL
REGULAR THE
TRADE TRADE
STATISTICS REPORTS.
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