FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1991

Value of merchandise domestic exports classified by industrial origin

for the third quarter of 1991

Merchandise domestic exports

(Vale in HKS'000)

Industrial origin of the

commodities exported

1990

1991

3rd qtr.

3rd qtr.

Value change

* change

Agriculture and Fishing

Agricultural, livestocks and poultry

3,263

2,730

+533

+19.5

production

Fishing

104,601

93,143

+LL,458

+12.3

Mining and Chuarrying

1.154

1,009

+146

+14.5

Manufacturing

Food

512,689

496,823

+16,066

+3.2

Beverages

Tobacco manufactures

Textiles (including knitting)

Wearing apparel, except.footwear

115,608

108,295

+7,314

+6.8

526,208

691,730

-165,521

-23.9

14,618,772

13,028,414

+1,590,358

+12.2

11,922,439

12,017,824

-95,385

-0.8

Leather and leather products, except

footwear and wearing apparel

420,$26

445,502

-24,977

-5.6

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

wooden footwear

Wood and cork products, furniture and

fixtures

Paper and paper products, printing and

publishing

155,236

226,020

-70,784

-31.3

121,701

159,931

-38,230

-23.9

1,834,012

1,700, 120

+133,892

+7.9

+

Chemicals and chemical products.

1,805,800

1,587,738

+218,062

+13.7

Products of petroleum and coal

5,432

+

Rubber products

25,393

1,781 27,240

+3,651

+205.0

-1.847

-6.1

Piastic products

2.119.417

2,320,857

-201,440

-8.7

Non-metallic mineral products, except

147,831

134,463

+13,368

+9.9

products of petroleum and coal

Basic meals and fabricated metal

2,369,462

2.300,867

+68.595

+3.0

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts

6,029,422

5,060,085

+968,337

+19.1

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

10,333,837

10,715,558

-381,721

-3.6

Transport equipment

50,947

67,934

-16,986

-25.0

Professional and optical equipment

4,340,323

6,039,349

-1,198,526

-19.3

Other manufacturing industries

3,560,566

3,551,596

+8,970

+0.3

Electricity

408,853

255,055

+153,798

+60.3

Miscellaneous itams

34,819

27,653

+7,166

+25.9

(é.g. developed photographic plates

and film, antiques, and works of art)

Total

62,068,011

61,061,716

+1,006,295

+1.6

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 third quarter of 1991 and the third quarter of 1990 for the respective major industry groups are derived after to-grouping the values of export items in the third quarter of 1990 according to the HSIC. The HSIC-based statistics may not be stricdy comparable with the domestic expart statistics classified by industrial origan for earlier years due to the change in industrial classification.

Kadustrial Research Section,

Consus & Statistics Department, Hong Kong.

Tel.: 839 3250

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