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MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1993

Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin

for the whole year of 1992

(Value in HK$ million)

Merchandise domestic exports

Industrial origin of the

commodities exported

1992 whole year

1991

Value

%%

whole year

change

change

Food

2,278

2,053

+224

+10.9

Beverages

437

415

+23

+5.4

Tobacco manufactures

2,610

2,613

-2

-0.1

Textiles (including knitting)

51,777

49,590

+2,187

+4.4

Wearing apparel, except footwear

42,831

43,805

-974

-2.2

Leather and leather products, except

1,718

1,537

+181

+11.8

footwear and wearing apparel

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

wooden footwear

402

572

-169

-29.6

Wood and cork products, furniture and

fixtures

488

550

-63

-11.4

Paper and paper products, printing and

publishing

7,673

6,798

+875

+12.9

Chemicals and chemical products

6,552

6,246

+306

+4.9

Products of petroleum and coal

14

12

+2

+18.7

Rubber products

120

114

+6

+5.2

Plastic products

6,860

8,249

-1,389

-16.8

Non-metallic mineral products, except

465

484

-20

-4.1

products of petroleum and coal

Basic metals and fabricated metal

9,513

9,564

-51

-0.5

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts

25,873

22,473

+3,401

+15.1

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

38,224

39,811

-1,586

-4.0

Transport equipment

204

270

-66

-24.6

Professional and optical equipment

18,546

20,109

-1,563

-7.8

Other manufacturing industries

14,823

13,816

+1,007

+7.3

Total

231,406

229,080

+2,326

+1.0

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 (SFTC 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 3223

March 1993

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