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LARGEST

IN PERCENTAGE TERMS, MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES WITH THE INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OVER THE THIRD QUARTER

PER (+24.5 1989 WERE : TOBACCO (+35.0 PER CENT); BEVERAGES CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+24.2 PER CENT); AND FOOD (+16.5 CENT).

OF

CENT);

PER

INDUSTRIES RECORDED

QUARTER OF

ON THE OTHER HAND, SEVERAL MANUFACTURING DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE THIRD 1990 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME QUARTER OF 1989.

AMONG THEM WERE

-14.2

WEARING PER CENT};

MILLION OR -2.7 (-$344 (-$275 MILLION OR -2.1 PER (-$113 MILLION OR -5.6 PER CENT).

PLASTIC PRODUCTS (-$586 MILLION OR -20.3

PBR

CENT); BASIC METALS AND FABRICATED

METAL

PRODUCTS (-$375 MILLION

OR

APPAREL,

FOOTWEAR AND KNITWEAR EXCEPT

KNITTING PER CENT); TEXTILES, INCLUDING

MACHINERY, CENT); AND

EXCEPT ELECTRICAL

OUTSIDE

THE MANUFACTURING

INDUSTRIES,

DOMESTIC EXPORTS $23 MILLION OR ORIGINATING FROM THE FISHING INDUSTRY DECREASED BY

OF QUARTER

1989, WHILE CENT 19.7 PER

AS COMPARED WITH THE THIRD

1 PER DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF ELECTRICITY INCREASED BY $59 MILLION OR 30. CENT.

THE ABOVE STATISTICS ON DOMESTIC EXPORTS ANALYSED BY INDUSTRIAL MERCHANDISE EXPORT ORIGIN ARE DERIVED BY RE-GROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT

THE ITEMS UNDER THE EXTERNAL TRADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM ACCORDING TO

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

BY INDUSTRIAL STANDARD

(ISTC),

ACTIVITIES

THE CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS ORIGIN IS STRUCTURED UPON THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL

OF ALL ECONOMIC INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION DISTINCT FROM THE UNITED

STANDARD INTERNATIONAL NATIONS CLASSIFICATION (SITC) WHICH IS ADOPTED IN THE REGULAR TRADE STATISTICS

REPORTS.

AS TRADE

RE-CLASSIFIED MAY REQUIRE SEVERAL IN SUCH CASES, NOT THE SOLE

CAUTION SHOULD BE TAKEN WHEN REFERRING TO THESE STATISTICS.

MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS CERTAIN INTERMEDIATE PROCESSING STAGES IN THEIR PRODUCTION. THE INDUSTRY IN WHICH AN ITEM IS FINALLY PRODUCED IS CONTRIBUTOR TO THE EXPORT VALUE OF THAT ITEM.

HOWEVER, THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE ITEM HAS WHOLLY BEEN

TO THAT INDUSTRY IN THIS RE-CLASSIFICATION.

ALLOCATED

A

BESIDES, 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

ESTABLISHMENTS CLASSIFIED PART OF THE VALUE MAY BE ATTRIBUTABLE TO UNDER OTHER INDUSTRIES AS SECONDARY PRODUCTS.

RE-

TABLE WHICH IS SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND

FURTHER DETAILS OF MERCHANDISE DOMESTIC EXPORTS STATISTICS CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN MAY BE FOUND IN A OBTAINABLE FROM THE INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (TEL. NO. 839 3223).

STATISTICS REPORT

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

/VALUE OF