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Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin

for the third quarter of 1992

Merchandise domestic exports

(Value in HK$'000)

Industrial origin of the

1992

1991

Value

%

commodities exported

3rd qtr.

3rd qtr.

change

change

Food

Beverages

538,525

509,969

+28,556

+5.6

132,153

115,608

+16,545

+14.3

Tobacco manufactures

Textiles (including knitting)

Wearing apparel, except footwear

661,712

526,208

+135,504

+25.8

15,573,067

14,632,326

+940,741

+5.4

11,698,486

11,916,493

-218,008

-1.8

Leather and leather products, except

footwear and wearing apparel

430,037

384,735

+45,302

+11.8

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

116,703

153,530

-36,827

-24.0

wooden footwear

Wood and cork products, furniture and

fixtures

120,288

117,320

+2,968

+2.5

Paper and paper products, printing and

2,134,612

1,834,012

+300,600

+16.4

publishing

Chemicals and chemical products

1,695,053

1,718,779

-23,726

-1.4

Products of petroleum and coal

3,654

5,432

-1,778

-32.7

Rubber products

29,503

26,761

+2,742

+10.2

Plastic products

1,782,231

2,228,529

-446,297

-20.0

Non-metallic mineral products, except

98,112

142,284

-44,172

-31.0

products of petroleum and coal

Basic metals and fabricated metal

2,469,584

2,425,864

+43,720

+1.8

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts

6,834,432

5,990,903

+843,529 +14.1

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

9,769,359

10,305,361

-536,002

-5.2

Transport equipment

62,331

52,230

+10,101

+19.3

Professional and optical equipment

4,805,611

4,840,823

-35,212

-0.7

Other manufacturing industries

3,620,857

3,589,938

+30,919

+0.9

Total

62,576,310

61,517,105

+1,059,205

+1.7

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.

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