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Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin

for the first quarter of 1995

(Value in HKS Million)

Merchandise domestic exports

Industrial origin of the

commodities exported

1995 1st qtr.

1994

1st qtr.

Value

%

change

change

Food

650.2

570.3

+79.9

+14.0

Beverages

201.8

133.5

+68.4

+51.2

Tobacco manufactures

582.4

554.9

+27.4

+4.9

Textiles (including knitting)

8,550.5

7,887.5

+663.0

+8.4

Wearing apparel, except footwear

8,788.3

8,166.0

+622.2

+7.6

Leather and leather products, except

365.0

334.9

+30.1

+9.0

footwear and wearing apparel

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

19.2

52.2

-33.0

-63.2

wooden footwear

Wood and cork products, furniture and

fixtures

89.6

94.1

-4.5

-4.8

Paper and paper products, printing and

1,781.0

1,613.1

+167.9

+10.4

publishing

Chemicals and chemical products

1,985.3

1,566.3

+419.0

+26.8

Products of petroleum and coal

4.7

2.1

+2.6

+120.1

Rubber products

18.5

29.6

-11.1

-37.6

Plastic products

1,167.8

1,128.7

+39.1

+3.5

Non-metallic mineral products, except

141.8

208.6

-66.9

-32.0

products of petroleum and coal

Basic metals and fabricated metal

2,266.1

1,989.1

+277.0

+13.9

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts

8,354.5

6,907.4

+1,447.1

+20.9

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

8,335.9

6,939.8

+1,396.1

+20.1

Transport equipment

3.1

69.5

-66.4

-95.5

Professional and optical equipment

3,817.9

3,211.9

+606,1

+18.9

Other manufacturing industries

2,951.0

3,034.6

-83.7

-2.8

Total

50,074.5

44,494.3

+5,580.2

+12.5

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 statistics presented in the above table are derived by re-grouping the merchandise export items

(except gold and specie) under the external trade classification system according to the industries in which these items are normally produced. As from 1992, the Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3 (SITC R3) has been adopted in place of the Revision 2 (SITC R2) for the classification of trade statistics. The above statistics may not be strictly comparable with those published for earlier years due to the change in trade classification.

General Economic Surveys Section,

Census & Statistics Department,

Hong Kong.

Tel.: 2805 6642

End/Thursday, May 18, 1995

May 1995