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THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1990

ON THE OTHER HAND, SEVERAL INDUSTRIES RECORDED DECREASES IN THE AS COMPARED OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1990

VALUR WITH THE SAME QUARTER OF 1989.

(-$981 PRODUCTS

PRODUCTS ELECTRONIC AMONG THEM WERE: ELECTRICAL AND MILLION OR -8.3 PER CENT); BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED METAL (-$416 MILLION OR 17.1 PER CENT); PLASTIC PRODUCTS (-$269 MILLION OR -12.2 -11.8 PER CENT); MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (-$219 MILLION OR

(-$110 MILLION OR PER CENT); AND PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL EQUIPMENT -2.4 PER CENT).

OUTSIDE THE

MANUFACTURING

EXPORTS

INDUSTRY, DOMESTIC ORIGINATING FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL FISHING DECREASED BY $60 MILLION OR WHILE 31.1 PER CENT AS COMPARED WITH THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989,

PER DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF ELECTRICITY DECREASED BY $27 MILLION OR 17.5 CENT.

THE ABOVE STATISTICS ON DOMESTIC EXPORTS ANALYSED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN ARE DERIVED BY RE-GROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS UNDER THE EXTERNAL TRADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM ACCORDING TO

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

BY INDUSTRIAL STANDARD (I.S.I.C.), AS

THE CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS ORIGIN IS STRUCTURED UPON THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OF ALL ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

NATIONS STANDARD

IS ADOPTED

DISTINCT CLASSIFICATION STATISTICS REPORTS,

FROM THE

(S.I.T.C.)

UNITED

WHICH

INTERNATIONAL IN THE

REGULAR

TRADE TRADE

RE-CLASSIFIED

MAY REQUIRE SEVERAL

CAUTION SHOULD BE TAKEN WHEN REFERRING TO THESE

MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS STATISTICS. CERTAIN INTERMEDIATE PROCESSING STAGES IN THEIR PRODUCTION.

IS ITEM

FINALLY

IN SUCH

THE CASES,

INDUSTRY IN WHICH AN PRODUCED IS NOT THE SOLE CONTRIBUTOR TO THE EXPORT VALUE OF THAT ITEM. HOWEVER, THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE ITEM HAS WHOLLY BEEN ALLOCATED TO THAT INDUSTRY IN THIS RE-CLASSIFICATION.

BESIDES,

A THE CLASSIFICATION OF A MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEM TO PARTICULAR INDUSTRY DOES NOT IMPLY THAT THE ENTIRE EXPORT VALUE OF THE INDUSTRY, SINCE ITEM IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ESTABLISHMENTS OF THAT

ΤΟ

BY VALUE

BE DUE OF THE CLASSIFIED UNDER OTHER INDUSTRIES AS SECONDARY PRODUCTS.

PART

MAY

PRODUCTION

DOMESTIC

ESTABLISHMENTS

EXPORTS

STATISTICS

FURTHER DETAILS OF MERCHANDISE RE-CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN MAY BE FOUND IN THE ATTACHED TABLE WHICH IS OBTAINABLE FROM THE INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (ON TEL. 823 4832).

A TABLE SHOWING MORE DETAILED BREAKDOWNS OF SIMILAR FOR SELECTED MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE "HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE, MARCH 1990".

STATISTICS

REPORT

/VALUE OF