Merchandise Domestic Exports Statistics Classified by Industrial Origin
for the Third Quarter of 2003

    Merchandise domestic exports (HK$ million)
   
Industrial origin of the commodities exported 2003
3rd quarter
2002
3rd quarter
Value
change
%
change

Food 327.7 434.6 -106.9 -24.6
Beverages 61.8 57.4 +4.4 +7.6
Tobacco manufactures 268.5 270.4 -2.0 -0.7
Textiles (including knitting) 12,996.2 13,654.5 -658.3 -4.8
Wearing apparel (except footwear) 8,913.4 8,781.3 +132.1 +1.5
Leather and leather products
  (except footwear and wearing apparel)
13.7 19.4 -5.7 -29.4
Footwear (except rubber, plastic
   and wooden footwear)
18.7 14.1 +4.6 +32.5
Wood and cork products,
  furniture and fixtures
12.6 15.2 -2.6 -17.2
Paper and paper products,
  printing and publishing
1,545.9 1,716.9 -171.0 -10.0
Chemicals and chemical products 1,485.1 1,297.1 +188.0 +14.5
Products of petroleum and coal 26.3 6.7 +19.6 +290.5
Rubber products 7.7 3.3 +4.4 +133.5
Plastic products 390.7 391.5 -0.8 -0.2
Non-metallic mineral products (except
   products of petroleum and coal)
25.5 13.0 +12.5 +95.6
Basic metals and fabricated
   metal products
882.4 799.6 +82.8 +10.4
Machinery, equipment, apparatus,
  parts and components
3,137.2 4,793.8 -1,656.6 -34.6
Consumer electrical and electronic products 2,207.7 2,208.3 -0.6 ##
Transport equipment 1.3 16.9 -15.6 -92.4
Professional and optical equipment 598.5 533.9 +64.6 +12.1
Other manufacturing industries 1,672.4 1,712.1 -39.7 -2.3

       
Total 34,593.1 36,740.2 -2,147.0 -5.8

Notes : 1. Figures may not add up to the respective totals because of rounding. The percentage changes are calculated from unrounded figures.
  2. ## Change within +/-0.05%.
  3. The statistics in the above table are derived by re-grouping the merchandise export items (except gold and specie) under the Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3 according to the industries in which these items are normally produced. Owing to the change in trade classification, the above statistics may not be strictly comparable with those published for earlier years.





   
Industrial Production Statistics Section,    
Census & Statistics Department,    
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.    
Tel. No. : (852) 2805 6643
Fax. No. : (852) 2805 6105
E-mail : ind-production@censtatd.gov.hk
Website of the Census & Statistics Department : http://www.info.gov.hk/censtatd/


Last updated: 11 November 2003