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Domestic export statistics classified by industrial origin

In the third quarter of 1995, the four major industries of textiles; wearing apparel; machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts and components; and consumer electrical and electronic products together accounted for 72% of Hong Kong's total domestic exports of manufactured goods, according to statistics released today (Thursday) by the Census and Statistics Department.

In the third quarter of 1995, domestic exports of machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts and components continued to increase significantly by 28% over a year earlier to $10.7 billion.

Those of wearing apparel increased by 2% to $12.1 billion. On the other hand, domestic exports of textiles and consumer electrical and electronic products decreased by 5% and 2% to $14.2 billion and $8.2 billion respectively.

As for other industries, significant absolute increases in the value of domestic exports were also recorded for professional and optical equipment (+$430 million or +11%); paper and paper products (+$193 million or +9%); basic metals and fabricated metal products (+$127 million or +5%).

For the transport equipment industry, although the change in absolute value was not as large, a marked percentage increase of 794% was recorded.

On the other hand, a more notable absolute decrease in the value of domestic exports was recorded for tobacco manufactures (-$139 million or -21%).

The above statistics of domestic exports classified by industrial origin are derived by re-grouping the merchandise export items originally grouped under the external trade classification system according to the industries in which these merchandise items are normally produced. Transactions in gold and specie are excluded.

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.