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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1991

1990 DOMESTIC EXPORTS STATISTICS RE-CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN PUBLISHED

(FRIDAY) BY THE ACCORDING ΤΟ THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY

MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT, THE SIX

EXPORTS IN 1990 WERE: GROUPS IN TERMS OF THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC

TEXTILES, INCLUDING KNITTING; ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS; WEARING APPAREL,

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

AND PROFESSIONAL

PRODUCTS; AND

THEY TOGETHER

ACCOUNTED FOR

OF 80.8%

THE TOTAL

VALUR OF

MERCHANDISE DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN 1990.

IN THB MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES WITH THE LARGEST INCREASES

PROFESSIONAL AND VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN 1990 OVER 1989 WERE :

CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS OPTICAL EQUIPMENT (+$1,825 MILLION);

AND PAPER

PAPER (+$1,281 MILLION);

(+$1,004 MILLION); TOBACCO PRODUCTS, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING (+$642 MILLION); TEXTILES, INCLUDING KNITTING (+$249 MILLION); AND FOOD (+$246 MILLION).

TERMS, PERCENTAGE

IN

TOBACCO (+49.9%);

MANUFACTURING

THE 1989

WITH INDUSTRIES LARGEST INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN 1990 OVER WERE :

CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+27.4%); PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FOOD (+14.9%); AND PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS, (+11.8%).

IN EXPORTS

ON

RECORDED COMPARED

MILLION

THE OTHER HAND, A NUMBER OF DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC

WITH 1989. AMONG THEM WERE :

BASIC METALS OR -16.7%);

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

1990 AS

(-$1,629

AND

PLASTIC PRODUCTS METAL FABRICATED

PRODUCTS (-$1,069 MILLION OR -10.5%); ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS (-$435 MILLION OR -0.8%); AND MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL (~$233 MILLION OR -3.0%).

INDUSTRIES,

OR

EXPORTS DOMESTIC

OF

DOMESTIC EXPORTS OUTSIDE THE MANUFACTURING ORIGINATING FROM THE FISHING INDUSTRY DECREASED BY $51 MILLION

WHILE 8.5% IN

COMPARED WITH 1989, IN 1990 AS ELECTRICITY INCREASED BY $112 MILLION OR 16.9%.

THE

STATISTICS

ON

DOMESTIC

EXPORTS

ANALYSED

BY

ABOVE INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN ARE DERIVED BY RE-GROUPING ALL SIX-DIGIT MERCHANDISE EXPORT ITEMS UNDER THE EXTERNAL TRADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM ACCORDING ITEMS ARE NORMALLY INDUSTRIES IN TO THE

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

THE

DISTINCT FROM

CLASSIFICATION

THE (S.I.T.C.)

UNITED

WHICH

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

CLASSIFICATION OF ALL INDUSTRIAL

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES (I.S.I.C.), AS NATIONS STANDARD

IS ADOPTED IN

BY INDUSTRIAL STANDARD

INTERNATIONAL

REGULAR THE

TRADE TRADE

STATISTICS REPORTS.

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