The value of domestic exports classified to the five major industries accounted for 70% of Hong Kong's total domestic exports in this year's second quarter, with those related to the chemicals and chemical products industry surging 40.7% on the same period last year to $2.8 billion, the Census & Statistics Department says.

The five major industries are textiles; apparel; consumer electrical and electronic products; chemicals and chemical products; and machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts and components.

Compared with the same period last year, the value of domestic exports classified to the apparel industry fell 40.5% to $3.7 billion, and that to the machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts and components industry dropped 36.8% to $2.7 billion.

The value of domestic exports classified to the consumer electrical and electronic products fell 36.2% to $3.4 billion, while that of the textiles industries fell 27.6% to $6.3 billion.

As for other manufacturing industries, the value of domestic exports classified to the basic metals and fabricated metal products industry grew 43.3% to $2.2 billion.

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