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Domestic exports of manufactured goods classified by industrial origin for 1996

$ million

Merchandise domestic exports

Industrial origin of the

1996

1995

Value

%

commodities exported

change

change

Food

2,918.21

2,770.0

+148.2

+5.3

Beverages

611.8

718.7

-106.9

-14.9

Tobacco manufactures

2,145.4

2,214,5

-69.1

-3.1

Textiles (including knitting)

43,240.5

45,716.7

-2,476.2

-5.4

Wearing apparel, except footwear

40,019.0

42,265,2

-2,246.2

-5,3

Leather and leather products, except

1,383,7

1,630.3

-246.6

-15.1

footwear and wearing apparel

Footwear, except rubber, plastic and

43.7]

75.1

-31.3

-41.7

wooden footwear

Wood and cork products, furniture and

fixtures

313.01

351.5

-38.4

-10.9

Paper and paper products, printing and

8,240.3

8,448.6

-208.2

-2.5

publishing

Chemicals and chemical products

7,883.6]

8,375.0

-491.4

-5.9

Products of petroleum and coal

27.7

23.01

+4.7

+20.2

Rubber products

62.4

72.9

-10.5

-14.4

Plastic products

4,471.1

4,803.2

-332.1

-6.9

Non-metallic mineral products, except

338.5

493.2

-154,7

-31.4

products of petroleum and coal

Basic metals and fabricated metal

9,043.2

9,858.1

-814.8

-8.3

products

Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts

36,515.0

39,647,3

-3,132.4

-7.9

and components

Consumer electrical and electronic products

25,903,7

31,567.6

-5,663.9

-17.9

Transport equipment

140.8

84.5

+56.2

+66.5

Professional and optical equipment

14,940.8

16,803,0

-1,862.2

-11.1

Other manufacturing industries

13,196.2

13,290.6

-94,3

-0.7

Total

211,438.6

229,208.9

-17,770.3

-7.8

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Notes: I. 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

February 1997