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APPENDICES

APPENDIX 16A

(Chapter 7: Industry and Trade)

Hong Kong's External Trade Analysed by Standard International Trade Classification Revision 3 (SITC Rev. 3)

Imports

Section/division

Food and live animals

Live animals

$ Million

1990

1991

1992

2,694

2,924

3,441

Meat and meat preparations

4,546

5,055

5,394

Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, and preparations thereof

8,507

9,398

10,728

Cereals and cereal preparations

2,307

2,544

3,083

Vegetables and fruit

8,809

10,175

11,040

Others

8,331

9,400

9,783

Sub-total

35,195

39,496

43,469

Beverages and tobacco

Beverages

4,243

5,050

5,814

Tobacco and tobacco manufactures

9,432

11,102

13,388

Sub-total

13,675

16,152

19,203

Crude materials, inedible, except fuels

Hides, skins and furskins, raw

1,517

1,659

1,920

Textile fibres (other than wool tops and other combed wool) and their wastes (not manufactured

into yarn or fabric)

5,611

7,735

6,898

Metalliferous ores and metal scrap

855

1,076

2,266

Crude animal and vegetable materials, ne s

5,199

5,329

5,472

Others

3,091

3,918

3,894

Sub-total

16,273

19,718

20,450

Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials

Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials

Others

Sub-total

Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes

12,562

12,966

15,312

3,030

3,366

3,618

15,593

16,331

18,930

Fixed vegetable fats and oils, crude, refined or fractionated

1,101

1,130

1,026

Medicinal and pharmaceutical products

Others

Sub-total

Chemicals and related products, n e s

Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials

Plastics in primary forms

154

97

107

1,254

1,228

1,133

5,708

6,907

7,844

4,686

6,231

7,577

13,997

18,629

21,119

Plastics in non-primary forms

5,384

6,842

8,161

Others

18,577

22,198

22,925

Sub-total

48,351

60,806

67,627

Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material

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

12,403

14,118

16,180

Textile yarn, fabrics, made-up articles, ne s and related products

79,191

93,678

101,322

Non-metallic mineral manufactures, n e s

23,096

24,561

29,335

Iron and steel

11,510

14,226

15,439

Others

29,892

35,861

45,503

Sub-total

156,091

182,443

207,778

Machinery and transport equipment

Office machines and automatic data processing machines

17,740

23,739

33,921

Telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment Electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, ǹ e s, and electrical parts thereof

49,406

60,094

75,629

61,969

77,791

95,434

Others

50,552

65,816

102,018

Sub-total

179,666

227,440

307,002

Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Articles of apparel and clothing accessories

53,506

66,507

80,078

Footwear

14,111

22,338

31,689

Photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies and optical goods, n e s; watches and clocks Miscellaneous manufactured articles, ne s

35,495

39,233

45,860

46,793

55,694

71,924

Others

23,759

28,696

36,049

Sub-total

173,666

212,468

265,599

Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC

2,767

2,899

4,103

Total merchandise

Gold and specie

Grand total

642,530

778,982

955,295

18,149

28,692

660,679

807,674

30,774 986,069

Note:

nes not elsewhere specified.

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