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MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1992

Domestic exports classified by industrial origin in the manufacturing industries

for the first quarter of 1992

(Value in HK$'000)

Merchandise domestic exports

Industrial origin of the

1992

1991

commodities exported

1st qtr.

Ist qtr.

Value change

%

change

Food

Beverages

490,188

474,219

+15,969

+3.4

59,519

68,830

-9,311

-13.5

Tobacco manufactures

434,107

670,497

-236,390

-35.3

Textiles (including knitting)

9,218,649

8,690,733

+527,916

+6.1

Wearing apparel, except footwear

9,374,119

9,865,995

-491,876

-3.0

Leather and leather products, except

373,104

310,027

+68,077

+22.0

footwear and wearing apparel

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

108,620

156,781

-48,161

-30.7

wooden footwear

Wood and cork products, furniture and

125,719

126,604

-885

-0.7

fixtures

Paper and paper products, printing and

1,586,174

1,349,319

+236,855

+17.6

publishing

Chemicals and chemical products

1,465,281

1,201,774

+263,506

+21.9

Products of petroleum and coal

2,381

1,574

+1,307

+83.0

Rubber products

23.066

29,216

-1.150

-3.9

Plastic products

1,693,244

1,586,388

+106,856

+6.7

Non-metallic mineral products, except

120,350

92,602

+27,748

+30.0

products of petroleum and coal

Basic metals and fabricated metal

2,191,710

2,070, 125

+121,584

+5.9

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus. parts

5.253,414

4,901,710

+351,704

+7.2

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

8,250,781

9,081,947

-831,166

-9.2

Transport equipment

52,279

28.169

+24,111

+85.6

Professional and optical equipment

4,001,011

4,596,114

-595,103

-12.9

Other manufacturing industries

3,361,914

2,857,991

+503,923

+17.6

Total

48,196,129

48,160,614

+35,514

+0.1

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. The above statistics are derived by re-grouping the merchandise export items under the external trade classification system according to the industries in which these items are normally produced. As from 1992, the Third Revision of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC R3) has been adopted in place of the Second Revision (SITC R2) for the classification of trade statistics. To facilitate year-on-year comparison, statistics for the same period in 1991 have been re-compiled in terms of SITC R3 as far as possible. The above statistics may not be strictly comparable with those published for earlier years due to the change in trade classification.

Industrial Research Section,

Census & Statistics Department, Hong Kong.

Tel.: 839 3250

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