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MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1994

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DOMESTIC EXPORT STATISTICS CLASSIFIED BY

INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN FOR 2ND QUARTER

APPAREL:

HONG

THE FOUR MAJOR INDUSTRY GROUPS OF TEXTILES; WEARING MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, APPARATUS, PARTS AND COMPONENTS; AND CONSUMER ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR 68% OF KONG'S TOTAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURED GOODS QUARTER OF 1994.

IN THE

THIS IS REVEALED BY STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY) CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

SECOND

BY THE

EXPORTS DOMESTIC

BILLION

TO OF WEARING APPAREL INCREASED BY 1% IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1994 COMPARED WITH A

YEAR

$9.3 EARLIER.

THOSE OF MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, APPARATUS, PARTS AND ALSO INCREASED BY 9% TO $8.3 BILLION.

COMPONENTS 1

AND

ELECTRONIC

ON THE OTHER HAND, DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF TEXTILES DECREASED BY 3%

BILLION, AND THOSE OF CONSUMER $10.9

ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS BY 6% TO $8.1 BILLION.

TO

DOMESTIC APPARATUS,

OF SIGNIFICANT ABSOLUTE INCREASES IN THE VALUE MORE EXPORTS WERE FOUND IN THE GROUPS OF MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT,

AND COMPONENTS (+$695 MILLION OR +9%); CHEMICALS PARTS PRODUCTS (+$194 MILLION OR +11%); AND FOOD (+$115 MILLION

AND

CHEMICAL

OR +23%).

AND BEVERAGES LARGE,

AS

FOR THE NON-METALLIC MINERAL PRODUCTS INDUSTRY; INDUSTRY, ALTHOUGH THE CHANGES IN ABSOLUTE VALUE WERE NOT MARKED PERCENTAGE INCREASES OF 38% AND 35% RESPECTIVELY WERE RECORDED.

INDUSTRY GROUPS WHICH RECORDED MORE NOTABLE ABSOLUTE DECREASES IN THE

(-$189 PLASTIC VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCLUDED

PRODUCTS MILLION OR -13%); AND PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL EQUIPMENT (-$91 MILLION OR -2%).

FOR

IN

OF 82%

CHANGE THE TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY, ALTHOUGH THE ABSOLUTE VALUE WAS NOT AS LARGE, A MARKED PERCENTAGE DECLINE WAS RECORDED.

THE ABOVE STATISTICS ON DOMESTIC EXPORTS ANALYSED BY INDUSTRIAL

ARE DERIVED BY RE-GROUPING THE MERCHANDISE EXPORT

CLASSIFICATION INDUSTRIES IN WHICH THESE

ITEMS MERCHAND SE TRANSACTIONS IN GOLD AND SPECIE ARE EXCLUDED.

ITEMS SYSTEM ARE

ORIGIN ORIGINALLY GROUPED UNDER THE EXTERNAL TRADE ACCORDING NORMALLY PRODUCED.

TO THE

THE INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION USED IS THE HONG KONG STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (HSIC). THE HSIC IS TO BE DISTINGUISHED FROM THE UNITED NATIONS STANDARD INTERNATIONAL TRADE CLASSIFICATION (SITC) USED IN THE REGULAR TRADE STATISTICS REPORTS.

IN COMPARISON, THE HSIC IS MORE RELATED TO PRODUCTION PROCESSES WHEREAS THE SITC IS MORE GEARED TO END USES OF PRODUCTS.

/CAUTION SHOULD