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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1992

Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin

for the second quarter of 1992

(Value in HK$'000)

Merchandise domestic exports

Industrial origin of the

1992

1991

Value

commodities exported

2nd qtr.

2nd qtr.

change

change

Food

Beverages

637,263

546,877

+90,386

+16.5

137,806

131,340

+6,465

+4.9

Tobacco manufactures

Textiles (including knitting)

836,459

791,562

+44,897

+5.7

12,664,500

11,230,379

+1,434,121

+12.8

Wearing apparel, except footwear

9,566,683

10,076,558

-509,876

-5.1

Leather and leather products, except

footwear and wearing apparel

434,081

403,694

+30,387

+7.5

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

wooden footwear

83,151

142,643

-59,492

-41.7

Wood and cork products, furniture and

fixtures

117,687

150,975

-33,288.

-22,0

Paper and paper products, printing and

1,929,192

1,681,672

+247,520

+14.7

publishing

Chemicals and chemical products

1,791,466

1,587,025

+204,441

+12.9

Products of petroleum and coal

4,516

2,707

+1,809

+66.8

Rubber products

32,780

34,277

-1,497

-4.4

Plastic products

1,757,367

2,129,414

-372,048

-17.5

Non-metallic mineral products, except

133,587

120,436

+13,151

+10.9

products of petroleum and coal

Basic metals and fabricated metal

2,443,206

2,533,307

-90,101

-3.6

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts

6,701,261

5,563,675

+1,137,586

+20.4

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

9,772,839

10,081,354

-308,515

-3.1

Transport equipment

44,811

121,450

-76,639

-63.1

Professional and optical equipment

4,668,857

5,226,894

-558,037

-10.7

Other manufacturing industries

3,783,123

3,368,247

+414,876

+12.3

Total

57,540,634

55,924,486 +1,616,149

+2.9

ค

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 (STTC 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.

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