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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1988

1987 EXPORTS STATISTICS BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN PUBLISHED

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GROUPS IN TERMS OF

VALUE

THE OF THE TOTAL

THE SIX MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR 84 PER CENT VALUE OF HONG KONG'S DOMESTIC MERCHANDISE EXPORTS IN 1987.

AND ELECTRONIC ELECTRICAL WERE: GROUPS THE SIX INDUSTRY

AND OPTICAL PROFESSIONAL APPAREL. WEARING PRODUCTS, TEXTILES,

METALS AND FABRICATED METAL EQUIPMENT, PLASTIC PRODUCTS, AND BASIC PRODUCTS.

THIS IS

BY SHOWN

STATISTICS,

RELEASED

BY

BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (MONDAY), ON DOMESTIC EXPORTS ANALYSED INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN FOR 1987.

TRADE

MERCHANDISE SYSTEM ARE

THIS SERIES IS DERIVED BY REGROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT

CLASSIFICATION EXPORT ITEMS UNDER THE PRESENT EXTERNAL

IN WHICH THESE MERCHANDISE ITEMS ACCORDING TO THE INDUSTRIES NORMALLY PRODUCED. TRANSACTIONS IN GOLD AND SPECIE ARE EXCLUDED.

AMONG ALL MANUFACTURING

INCREASES

IN

ABSOLUTE

MILLION),

AND ELECTRICAL

VALUE OVER

ELECTRONIC

BASIC

LARGEST

(+$10,554

MILLION),

EQUIPMENT

METAL

PRODUCTS

THOSE WITH THE INDUSTRIES,

WERE: 1986

TEXTILES (+$8,980 PRODUCTS WEARING APPAREL (+$7,616 MILLION), PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL

METALS AND FABRICATED (+$2,954 MILLION) AND (+$2,026 MILLION).

THE LARGEST INCREASES WITH INDUSTRIES IN PERCENTAGE TERMS,

MACHINERY, OVER 1986 WERE LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS (+69 PER CENT),

AND CHEMICALS EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (+57 PER CENT), (+56 PER CENT) AND TOBACCO (+40 PER CENT).

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ON THE OTHER HAND, A DECREASE

RECORDED 1986 WAS TERMS COMPARED WITH INDUSTRY (-$12 MILLION OR -8 PER CENT).

CHEMICAL PRODUCTS

EXPORTS DOMESTIC IN THE TRANSPORT

BESIDES THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, DOMESTIC EXPORTS

AND LIVESTOCK

POULTIS

PRODUCTION MILLION

FROM AGRICULTURAL, SUBSTANTIAL PERCENTAGE INCREASE OVER 1986 CENT). THOSE FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL FISHING ROSE BY +40 PER CENT).

THE CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPORT

NATIONS ORIGIN IS STRUCTURED UPON THE UNITED INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OF ALL ECONOM ||

$150

IN

VALUE EQUIPMENT

ORIGINATING RECORDED A OR +85 PER MILLION OR

ITEMS BY INTERNATIONAL

SITIVITIES (ISIC).

INDUSTRIAL

STANDARD

/THIS IS