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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1987

IN PERCENTAGE TERMS,

INCREASES (+97 CENT), TOBACCO (+49

INDUSTRIES WITH THE LARGEST OVER THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1986 WERE LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS PER CENT), MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (+61 PER PER CENT), AND CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+47 PER CENT).

EXPORT VALUE ON THE OTHER HAND, A SLIGHT DECREASE IN DOMESTIC

1986 WAS RECORDED IN THE FOOD COMPARED WITH THE THIRD QUARTER OF INDUSTRY (-$20 MILLION OR -5 PER CENT).

POULTRY

ORIGINATING

ROSE PER

BESIDES THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, DOMESTIC EXPORTS

AND AGRICULTURAL, LIVESTOCK

PRODUCTION SUBSTANTIALLY FROM THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1986 (+$3 MILLION OR +339

FROM

CENT).

STATISTICS RELEASED BY THE INFORMATION WAS DERIVED FROM

DEPARTMENT TODAY (WEDNESDAY) ON AND STATISTICS CENSUS

DOMESTIC QUARTER OF THIS EXPORTS ANALYSED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN FOR THE THIRD YEAR.

THE

THIS SERIES IS DERIVED BY REGROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT MERCHANDISE TRADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM EXPORT ITEMS UNDER THE PRESENT EXTERNAL

IN WHICH THESE MERCHANDISE ITEMS ACCORDING TO THE INDUSTRIES

ARE

NORMALLY PRODUCED.

TRANSACTIONS IN GOLD AND SPECIE ARE EXCLUDED.

ITEMS BY INDUSTRIAL NATIONS INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ACTIVITIES (I.S.I.C.). AS INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THE REGULAR TRADE

THE CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPORT ORIGIN IS STRUCTURED UPON THE UNITED INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OF ALL ECONOMIC DISTINCT

THE UNITED NATIONS STANDARD

WHICH IS ADOPTED CLASSIFICATION (S.I.T.C.) STATISTICS REPORTS.

FROM

WHEN REFERRING TO THESE RE-CLASSIFIED FIGURES, SOME CAUTION

CERTAIN MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS MAY

期

IS REQUIRE SEVERAL IN SUCH CASES, NOT REALLY THE HOWEVER,

IN THIS WHOLLY ALLOCATED

NECESSARY. INTERMEDIATE PROCESSING STAGES FOR THEIR PRODUCTION. THE INDUSTRY IN WHICH AN ITEM IS FINALLY PRODUCED 13

TO CONTRIBUTOR

THE SOLE

VALUE. EXPORT RE-CLASSIFICATION, THE OVERALL VALUE OF THE ITEM IS

TO THAT INDUSTRY.

TO A BESIDES, THE CLASSIFICATION OF A MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEM

THE ITEM PARTICULAR INDUSTRY DOES NOT IMPLY THAT THE ENTIRE VALUE OF

INDUSTRY, SINCE SOME IS ACTUALLY PRODUCED BY ESTABLISHMENTS OF THAT

UNDER MAY BE SECONDARY PRODUCTS PRODUCED BY ESTABLISHMENTS CLASSIFIED OTHER INDUSTRIES.

CONTAINING

A TABLE

FURTHER DETAILS OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS MERCHANDISE RE-CLASSIFIED BY STATISTICS FOR

INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN IS SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND OBTAINABLE FROM THE INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH

A 5-8234832).

TABLE STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (ON TELEPHONE

ON

INDUSTRIES IS ALSO INCLUDED THESE STATISTICS FOR SELECTED

IN THE REPORT "HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE, SEPTEMBER 1987".

NUMBER

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