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FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1991
Value of merchandise domestic exports classified by industrial origin
for the first quarter of 1991
Industrial origin of the
commodities exported
Merchandise domestic exports
1991
1990
Ist qtr.
fat qtr.
(Value in HK$'000)
Value change
%
change
Agriculture and Fishing
Agricultural, livestocks and poultry
2.142
2.359
-216
-9.2
production
Fishing
128,980
134,031
-5,051
-3.8
Mining and Quarrying
463
2,887
-2,424
-84.0
Manufacturing
Food
472,414
421,359
+51,054
+12.1
Beverages
Tobacco manufactures
68,642
70,720
-2,078
-2.9
670,497
708,428
-37,931
-5.4
Textiles (including knitting)
8,676,868
8,302,734
+374, 134
+4.5
Wearing apparel, except footwear
9,874,258
9,382,624
+491,634
+5.2
Leather and leather products, except
344,079
388,678
-44,599
-11.5
footwear and wearing apparel
Footwear, except rubber, plastic and
157,934
199,831
-41,897
-21.0
wooden footwear
Wood and cork products, furniture and
128,869
141,713
-12,844
-9.1
fixtures
Paper and paper products, printing and
1,349,318
1,227,970
+121,348
+9.9
publishing
Chemicals and chemical products
1,264,838
1,198,635
+66,203
+5.5
Products of petroleum and coal
1,574
1,321
+253
+19.2
Rubber products
28.379
42,523
Plastic products
1,501,804
2,016,418
-14,144 -514,614
-33.3
-25.5
Non-metallic mineral products, except
100,312
108,003
-7,691
-7.1
products of petroleum and coal
Basic metals and fabricated metal
2,030,525
2,061,401
-30,876
-1.5
products
Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts
4,939,060
4,279,606
+659,453
+15.4
and components
Consumer electrical and electronic products
9,093,501
8,092,288
+1,001,213
+12.4
Transport equipment
28,117
63,133
-35,016
-55.3
Professional and optical equipment
4,596,477
4,435,643
+160,834
+3.6
Other manufacturing industries
2,828,848
3,019,838
-190,989
-6.3
Electricity
185,309
128,964
+56,345
+43.7
Miscellaneous itama
27,246
29,015
-1,769
-6.1
(e.g. developed photographic plates
and film, antiques, and works of art)
Total
48,500,454
46,460,121
+2,040,333
+4.4
Notes: 1. Individual entries of a column may not add up exactly to the corresponding total due to rounding. All
percentage changes are calculated from unrounded figures.
2. As from 1991, the above statistics are published by major industry groups based on the Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification (HSIC). In order to compare the 1991 figures with the 1990 ones, the value changes and percentage changes between the first quarter of 1991 and the first quarter of 1990 for the respective major industry groups are derived after re-grouping the values of export items in the first quarter of 1990 according to the HSIC. The HSIC-based statistics may not be strictly comparable with the domestic export statistica classified by industrial origin for earlier quarters due to the change in industrial classification.
Industrial Research Section,
Census & Statistics Department,
Hong Kong.
Tel.: 839 3223
May 1991
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