TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1992
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Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin
for the third quarter of 1992
Merchandise domestic exports
(Value in HK$'000)
Industrial origin of the
1992
1991
Value
%
commodities exported
3rd qtr.
3rd qtr.
change
change
Food
Beverages
538,525
509,969
+28,556
+5.6
132,153
115,608
+16,545
+14.3
Tobacco manufactures
Textiles (including knitting)
Wearing apparel, except footwear
661,712
526,208
+135,504
+25.8
15,573,067
14,632,326
+940,741
+5.4
11,698,486
11,916,493
-218,008
-1.8
Leather and leather products, except
footwear and wearing apparel
430,037
384,735
+45,302
+11.8
Footwear, except rubber, plastic and
116,703
153,530
-36,827
-24.0
wooden footwear
Wood and cork products, furniture and
fixtures
120,288
117,320
+2,968
+2.5
Paper and paper products, printing and
2,134,612
1,834,012
+300,600
+16.4
publishing
Chemicals and chemical products
1,695,053
1,718,779
-23,726
-1.4
Products of petroleum and coal
3,654
5,432
-1,778
-32.7
Rubber products
29,503
26,761
+2,742
+10.2
Plastic products
1,782,231
2,228,529
-446,297
-20.0
Non-metallic mineral products, except
98,112
142,284
-44,172
-31.0
products of petroleum and coal
Basic metals and fabricated metal
2,469,584
2,425,864
+43,720
+1.8
products
Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts
6,834,432
5,990,903
+843,529 +14.1
and components
Consumer electrical and electronic products
9,769,359
10,305,361
-536,002
-5.2
Transport equipment
62,331
52,230
+10,101
+19.3
Professional and optical equipment
4,805,611
4,840,823
-35,212
-0.7
Other manufacturing industries
3,620,857
3,589,938
+30,919
+0.9
Total
62,576,310
61,517,105
+1,059,205
+1.7
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. The above statistics are derived by re-grouping the merchandise export items under the external trade classification system according to the industries in which these items are normally produced. As from 1992, the Third Revision of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC R3) has been adopted in place of the Second Revision (SITC R2) for the classification of trade statistics. To facilitate year-on-year comparison, statistics for the same period in 1991 have been re-compiled in terms of SITC R3 as far as possible. The above statistics may not be strictly comparable with those published for earlier years due to the change in trade classification.
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