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Table 1: Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin

for the first quarter of 1993

(Value in HK$'000)

Merchandise domestic exports

Industrial origin of the

1993

1992

Value

%

commodities exported

1st qtr.

1st qtr.

change

change

Food

Beverages

515,918

490,188

+25,730

+5.2

140,244

59,519

+80,725

+135.6

Tobacco manufactures

553,714

434,107

+119,607

+27.6

Textiles (including knitting)

8,706,593

9,218,649

-512,056

-5.6

Wearing apparel, except footwear

8,633,331

9,374,119

-740,787

-7.9

Leather and leather products, except

368,998

378,104

-9,106

-2.4

footwear and wearing apparel

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

66,687

108,620

-41,933

-38.6

wooden footwear

Wood and cork products, furniture and

fixtures

92,543

125,719

-33,176

-26.4

Paper and paper products, printing and

1,647,131

1,586,174

+60,957

+3.8

publishing

Chemicals and chemical products

1,537,951

1,465,281

+72,570

+5.0

Products of petroleum and cost

2,002

2,881

-879

-30.5

Rubber products

20,559

28,066

-7,507

-26.7

Plastic products

1,312,868

1,693,244

-380,375

-22.5

Non-metallic mineral products, except

105,545

120,350

-14,805

-12.3

products of petroleum and coal

Basic metals and fabricated metal

2,191,506

2,191,710

-204

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts

6,675,048

5,253,414

+1,421,634

+27.1

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

8,702,384

8,250,781

+451,603

+5.5

Transport equipment

38,778

52,279

-13,501

-25.8

Professional and optical equipment

3,622,901

4,001,011

-378,110

-9.5

Other manufacturing industries

3,091,846

3,361,914

-270,068

-8.0

Total

48,026,548

48,196,129

-169,581

-0.4

Change within ± 0.05%

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. The above statistics may not be strictly comparable with those published for earlier years due to the change in trade classification.

Industrial Research Section,

Census & Statistics Department, Hong Kong.

Tel.: 839 3223

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