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MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1994

Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin

for the second quarter of 1994

Merchandise domestic exports

(Value in HK$'000)

Industrial origin of the

1994

1993.

commodities exported

2nd qtr.

2nd qtr.

Value change

曳

change

Food

Beverages

613,667

499,047

+114,620

+23.0

164,871

122,278

+42,593

+34.8

Tobacco manufactures

598,137

671,596

-73,460

-10.9

Textiles (including knitting)

10,933,069

11,237,446

-304,377

-2.7

Wearing apparel, except footwear

9,279,393

9,182,631

+96,762

+1.1

Leather and leather products, except

366,947

411,546

-44,599

-10.8

footwear and wearing apparel

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

44,183

55,659

-11,476

-20.6

wooden footwear

Wood and cork products, furniture and

85,729

109,297

-23,568

-21.6

fixtures

Paper and paper products, printing and

1,914,068

1,923,170

-9,102

-0.5

publishing

Chemicals and chemical products

1,969,533

1,775,478

+194,055

+10.9

Products of petroleum and coal

3,611

3,107

+504

+16.2

Rubber products

27,229

26,115

+1,114

+4.3

Plastic products

1,255,378

1,444,483

-189,105

-13.1

Non-metallic mineral products, except

178,273

129,312

+48,961

+37.9

products of petroleum and coa!

Basic metals and fabricated metal

2,312,251

2,275,203

+37,048

+1.6

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts

8,254,736

7,559,985

+694,751

+9.2

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

8,144,200

8,658,791

-514,591

-5.9

Transport equipment

4,626

25,844

-21,218

-82.1

Professional and optical equipment

3,831,649

3,922,365

-90,716

-2.3

Other manufacturing industries

3,517,443

3,549,705

-32,262

-0.9

Total

53,498,992

53,583,057

-84,065

-17.6

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 above statistics may not the Second Revision (SITC R2) for the classification of trade statistics.

be strictly comparable with those published for earlier years due to the change in trade classification,

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