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Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin

for the first quarter of 1996

Merchandise domestic exports

1996

1995

Industrial origin of the

commodities exported

1st qtr.

1st qtr.

$ Million

Value

%

change

change

Food

620.2

650.2

-30.0

-4.6

Beverages

147.9

201.8

-53.9

-26.7

Tobacco manufactures

$30.7

582.4

-51.7

-8.9

Textiles (including knitting)

7,948.3

8,550.5)

-602.2

-7.0

Wearing apparel, except footwear

8,564,7

8,788.3

-223.6

-2.5

Leather and leather products, except

331,2

365.0

-33.8

-9.3

footwear and wearing apparel

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

9.4

19.2

-9.8

-51.1

wooden footwear

Wood and cork products, furniture and

fixtures

89.7

89.6

+0.0

+0.0

Paper and paper products, printing and

1,808.9

1,781.0

+27.9

+1.6

publishing

Chemicals and chemical products

1,779.0

1,985.3]

-206.3

-10.4

Products of petroleum and coal

5.5

4.7

+0.8

+16.0

Rubber products

11.9

18.5

-6.6

-35.5

Plastic products

970.5

1,167.8

-197.3

-16.9

Non-metallic mineral products, except

86.1

141.8!

-$5.7

-39.3

products of petroleum and coal

Basic metals and fabricated metal

2,050.2

2,266.1

-215.9

-9.5

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts

9,359.4

8,354.5

+1,005.0

+12.0

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

6,418.2

8,335.9

-1,917.7

-23.0

Transport equipment

68.0

3.1

+64.9

+2,086.4

Professional and optical equipment

3,560.8

3,817.9

-257.1

-6.7

Other manufacturing industries

3,036.9

2,951.0

+85.9

+2.9

Total

47,397.4

50,074.5

-2,677.1

-5.3

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

May 1996

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