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SERVING SISTERS

MISS LAU PIR-SA]

MRS LUI CHAN SIL –KING MISS MA KA-BAY

MISS WO0 LAI-KUEN

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,

1989

3RD QUARTER EXPORTS STATISTICS RE-CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN

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AND

OF THE VALUE THE SIX MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY GROUPS IN TERMS OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989 WERE: ELECTRICAL

KNITTING; WEARING APPAREL, ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS; TEXTILES, INCLUDING

PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL EQUIPMENT; EXCEPT FOOTWEAR AND KNITWEAR; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; AND BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS.

THIS IS SHOWN BY STATISTICS RELEASED

TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE

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CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THE TOTAL VALUE

THEY TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR 82.5 PER CENT OF OF MERCHANDISE DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989.

THE LARGEST INCREASES IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES WITH

THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1988 ABSOLUTE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OVER WERE: TEXTILES, INCLUDING KNITTING (+$1,577 MILLION); WEARING APPAREL,

PROFESSIONAL MILLION}; EXCEPT FOOTWEAR AND KNITWEAR (+$686

MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL OPTICAL EQUIPMENT (+$284 MILLION); (+$238 MILLION); CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+$147 MILLION); TOBACCO (+$109 MILLION).

TEXTILES,

AND

AND

INCREASES IN IN PERCENTAGE TERMS, INDUSTRIES WITH THE LARGEST

QUARTER OF 1988 WERE: THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OVER THE THIRD

KNITTING (+13. INCLUDING

PER 4 TOBACCO (+27.0 PER CENT);

CENT); AND CHEMICALS CENT); MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (+13.2 PER AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+13.0 PER CENT).

RECORDED INDUSTRIES

ON THE OTHER HAND, SEVERAL THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE THIRD QUARTER WITH THE SAME QUARTER OF 1988.

ELECTRONIC

DECREASES IN

OF 1989 COMPARED

PRODUCTS (-$1,026 MILLION OR -17.8 (-8231 MILLION

AMONG THEM WERE: ELECTRICAL AND MILLION OR -6.8 PER CENT); PLASTIC PRODUCTS (-$628 PER CENT); BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS OR -8.1 PER CENT); AND FOOTWEAR (-8107 MILLION OR -29.0 PER CENT).

ORIGINATING

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OUTSIDE THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, DOMESTIC EXPORTS

MILLION 16

OR

PER FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL FISHING DECREASED BY

WHILE DOMESTIC EXPORTS CENT COMPARED WITH THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1988, OF ELECTRICITY INCREASED BY $36 MILLION OR 22.3 PER CENT.

/THE ABOVE