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Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin
for the first quarter of 1996
Merchandise domestic exports
1996
1995
Industrial origin of the
commodities exported
1st qtr.
1st qtr.
$ Million
Value
%
change
change
Food
620.2
650.2
-30.0
-4.6
Beverages
147.9
201.8
-53.9
-26.7
Tobacco manufactures
$30.7
582.4
-51.7
-8.9
Textiles (including knitting)
7,948.3
8,550.5)
-602.2
-7.0
Wearing apparel, except footwear
8,564,7
8,788.3
-223.6
-2.5
Leather and leather products, except
331,2
365.0
-33.8
-9.3
footwear and wearing apparel
Footwear, except rubber, plastic and
9.4
19.2
-9.8
-51.1
wooden footwear
Wood and cork products, furniture and
fixtures
89.7
89.6
+0.0
+0.0
Paper and paper products, printing and
1,808.9
1,781.0
+27.9
+1.6
publishing
Chemicals and chemical products
1,779.0
1,985.3]
-206.3
-10.4
Products of petroleum and coal
5.5
4.7
+0.8
+16.0
Rubber products
11.9
18.5
-6.6
-35.5
Plastic products
970.5
1,167.8
-197.3
-16.9
Non-metallic mineral products, except
86.1
141.8!
-$5.7
-39.3
products of petroleum and coal
Basic metals and fabricated metal
2,050.2
2,266.1
-215.9
-9.5
products
Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts
9,359.4
8,354.5
+1,005.0
+12.0
and components
Consumer electrical and electronic products
6,418.2
8,335.9
-1,917.7
-23.0
Transport equipment
68.0
3.1
+64.9
+2,086.4
Professional and optical equipment
3,560.8
3,817.9
-257.1
-6.7
Other manufacturing industries
3,036.9
2,951.0
+85.9
+2.9
Total
47,397.4
50,074.5
-2,677.1
-5.3
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 statistics presented in the above table are derived by re-grouping the merchandise export items
(except gold and specie) under the external trade classification system according to the industries in which these items are normally produced. As from 1992, the Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3 (SITC R3) has been adopted in place of the Revision 2 (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.
General Economic Surveys Section,
Census & Statistics Department,
Hong Kong.
Tel.: 2805 6642
May 1996
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