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Appendix 4

(Chapter 2: Industry and Trade)

Hong Kong's External Trade by SITC (Rev. 2) Commodity

Section/Division

Imports

Section division

Food and live animals chiefly for food

255

1976

1977

$ Million

1978

Live animals chiefly for food

1 206

1 237

1 283

Meat and meat preparations

837

896

1018

Fish, crustacea and molluscs and preparations thereof

880

987

1 178

Cereals and cereal preparations

1 010

967

Vegetables and fruit

1 387

1 626

Others

1 371

1 522

1 104 2004 1 621

Sub-total

6 691

7 234

8 207

Beverages and tobacco

Beverages

368

410

542

Others

365

326

447

Sub-total

733

736

989

Crude materials, inedible, except fuels

Cork and wood

190

210

274

Textile fibres (other than wool tops) and their wastes

(not manufactured into yarn or fabrics)

1 855

1 675

1815

Crude animal and vegetable materials, n e s

818

1063

Others

343

308

Sub-total

3 206

3256

Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials

Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials Others

2 589

2907

91

89

Sub-total

2 680

2 995

1 253 415 3756

3 029 94

3 122

Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes

Fixed vegetable oils and fats

212

247

275

Others

5

4

4

Sub-total

217

251

279

Chemicals and related products, n e s

Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials

708

598

727

Medicinal and pharmaceutical products

514

623

726

Artificial resins and plastic materials, and cellulose esters and ethers Others

1011

1 042

1 325

1 190

1 378

1 829

Sub-total

3 422

3 641

4 606

Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material

Paper, paperboard, and articles of paper pulp, of paper

or of paperboard

975

995

1 349

Textile yarn, fabrics, made-up articles, n e s and related products Non-metallic mineral manufactures, n e s

6759

6 608

8 681

2 673

3 283

5 425

Iron and steel

1 143

1 369

2018

Others

1987

2357

3 025

Sub-total

13 537

14 612

20 498

Machinery and transport equipment

Telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing

apparatus and equipment

1 352

1513

2057

Electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, n e s

2 519

2990

3 896

Road vehicles (including air-cushion vehicles)

701

971

1 425

Others

3 299

4 067

5 089

Sub-total

7 871

9 541

12 467

Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Articles of apparel and clothing accessories

710

954

1 299

Professional, scientific and controlling instruments and

apparatus, nes

145

212

242

Photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies and

optical goods, nes; watches and clocks

2265

3 027

4 300

Miscellaneous manufactured articles, n e s

1 284

1 545

2154

Others

449

Sub-total

4 853

619 6 356

889

8 884

Commodities and transactions not classified according to kind

82

Total merchandise

Gold and specie

Grand total

43 293 2284

626

45 577

49 327

78

48 701

247 63 056

1 679 64 734