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MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1994
Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin
for the second quarter of 1994
Merchandise domestic exports
(Value in HK$'000)
Industrial origin of the
1994
1993.
commodities exported
2nd qtr.
2nd qtr.
Value change
曳
change
Food
Beverages
613,667
499,047
+114,620
+23.0
164,871
122,278
+42,593
+34.8
Tobacco manufactures
598,137
671,596
-73,460
-10.9
Textiles (including knitting)
10,933,069
11,237,446
-304,377
-2.7
Wearing apparel, except footwear
9,279,393
9,182,631
+96,762
+1.1
Leather and leather products, except
366,947
411,546
-44,599
-10.8
footwear and wearing apparel
Footwear, except rubber, plastic and
44,183
55,659
-11,476
-20.6
wooden footwear
Wood and cork products, furniture and
85,729
109,297
-23,568
-21.6
fixtures
Paper and paper products, printing and
1,914,068
1,923,170
-9,102
-0.5
publishing
Chemicals and chemical products
1,969,533
1,775,478
+194,055
+10.9
Products of petroleum and coal
3,611
3,107
+504
+16.2
Rubber products
27,229
26,115
+1,114
+4.3
Plastic products
1,255,378
1,444,483
-189,105
-13.1
Non-metallic mineral products, except
178,273
129,312
+48,961
+37.9
products of petroleum and coa!
Basic metals and fabricated metal
2,312,251
2,275,203
+37,048
+1.6
products
Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts
8,254,736
7,559,985
+694,751
+9.2
and components
Consumer electrical and electronic products
8,144,200
8,658,791
-514,591
-5.9
Transport equipment
4,626
25,844
-21,218
-82.1
Professional and optical equipment
3,831,649
3,922,365
-90,716
-2.3
Other manufacturing industries
3,517,443
3,549,705
-32,262
-0.9
Total
53,498,992
53,583,057
-84,065
-17.6
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. 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 above statistics may not the Second Revision (SITC R2) for the classification of trade statistics.
be strictly comparable with those published for earlier years due to the change in trade classification,
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