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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1991

Valve of merchandise domestic exports classified by industrial origin for the second quarter of 1991

Industrial origin of the

(Value in HK$'000%

Merchandise domestic exports

1991 2nd qtr.

1990 2nd qtr.

Value change

change

commodities exported

Agriculture and Fishing

Agricultural, livestocks and poultry

1,995

1,860

+135

+7.3

production

Fishing

200,477

208,484

-1,008

-3.8

Mining and Quarrying

1,766

2,316

-550

-23.8

Manufacturing

Food

547,641

437,296

+130,345

+25.2

Beverages

131,219

94,430

+36,789

+39.0

Tobacco manufactures

791,562

730,751

+60,810

+8.3

Textiles (including knitting)

11,214,694

10,747,680

+467,014

4.3

Wearing apparel, except footwear

10,082,923

9,818,607

+264,316

Leather and leather products, except

446,556

422,920

+23,636

+5.1

footwear and wearing apparel

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

144,278

211,967

-67,689

-31.9

wooden footwear

Wood and cork products, furniture and

154,907

177,594

-22,687

-12.8

fixtures

Paper and paper products, printing and

1,681,672

1,492,007

+189,665

+12.7

publishing

Chemicals and chemical products

1,677,823

1,472,274

+205,54%

+14.0

Products of petroleum and coal

2,707

1,430

+1,278

+89.4

Rubber products

33,040

27,151

+5,889

+21.7

Plastic products

2,018,039

2,222,994

-204,955

-9.2

Non-metallic mineral products, except

125,288

138,012

-12,724

-9.2

products of petroleum and coal

Basic metals and fabricated metal

2,475,077

2,368,570

+106,507

+4.5

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatuur, ports

5,601,641

5,101,005

+500,636

+9.8

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

10,111,870

9,774,394

+337,476

+3.5

Transport equipment

120,591

49,826

+70,765

+142.0

Professional and optical equipment

5,227,437

5,168,286

+59,151

+1.1

Other manufacturing industries

3,333,319

3,196,273

+137,047

+4.3

Electricity

272,346

179,546

+92,799

+31.7

Miscellaneous itema

25,730

32,389

-6.659

-20.6

(e.g. developed photographic plates

and film, antiques, and works of art)

Total

56,424,596

54,078,054

+2,346,532

+4.3

Notes: 1. Individual entries of a column may not add up exactly to the corresponding total due to rounding. All

percentage changes are calculated from unrounded figures.

2. As from 1991, the above statistics are published by major industry groups based on the Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification (HSIC). In order to compare the 1991" figures with the 1990 ones, the value changes and percentage changes between the second quarter of 1991 and the second quarter of 1990 for the respective major industry groups are derived after ré-grouping the values of export items in the second quarter of 1990 according to the H51C. The HSIC-based statistics may not be strictly comparable with the domestic export statistics classified by industrial origin for earlier years due to the change in industrial

classification.

Industrial Research Section,

Census & Statistics Department,

Hong Kong.

Tel.: 839 3250

August 1991

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