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Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin for 1996
$ million
Merchandise domestic exports
Industrial origin of the
1996
1995
Value
%
commodities exported
change
change
Food
2,918.21
2,770.0
+148.2
+5.3
Beverages
611.8
718.7
-106.9
-14.9
Tobacco manufactures
2,145.4
2,214,5
-69.1
-3.1
Textiles (including knitting)
43,240.5
45,716.7
-2,476.2
-5.4
Wearing apparel, except footwear
40,019.0
42,265,2
-2,246.2
-5,3
Leather and leather products, except
1,383,7
1,630.3
-246.6
-15.1
footwear and wearing apparel
Footwear, except rubber, plastic and
43.7]
75.1
-31.3
-41.7
wooden footwear
Wood and cork products, furniture and
fixtures
313.01
351.5
-38.4
-10.9
Paper and paper products, printing and
8,240.3
8,448.6
-208.2
-2.5
publishing
Chemicals and chemical products
7,883.6]
8,375.0
-491.4
-5.9
Products of petroleum and coal
27.7
23.01
+4.7
+20.2
Rubber products
62.4
72.9
-10.5
-14.4
Plastic products
4,471.1
4,803.2
-332.1
-6.9
Non-metallic mineral products, except
338.5
493.2
-154,7
-31.4
products of petroleum and coal
Basic metals and fabricated metal
9,043.2
9,858.1
-814.8
-8.3
products
Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts
36,515.0
39,647,3
-3,132.4
-7.9
and components
Consumer electrical and electronic products
25,903,7
31,567.6
-5,663.9
-17.9
Transport equipment
140.8
84.5
+56.2
+66.5
Professional and optical equipment
14,940.8
16,803,0
-1,862.2
-11.1
Other manufacturing industries
13,196.2
13,290.6
-94,3
-0.7
Total
211,438.6
229,208.9
-17,770.3
-7.8
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Notes: I. 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
February 1997