Hong Kong's six major industries accounted for 77% of the city's total domestic export value in the first quarter, with the domestic export value of basic metals and fabricated metal products surging 56.3%, the Census & Statistics Department says.

The six major industries are textiles; consumer electrical and electronic products; apparel; chemicals and chemical products; basic metals and fabricated metal products; and, machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts and components.

The domestic export value of machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts and components fell 14.5% on a year earlier to $2.2 billion in this year's first quarter, and that for textiles dropped 14.4% to $3.7 billion.

For consumer electrical and electronic products the domestic export value dipped 3% to $2.9 billion and wearing apparel fell 1.5% to $2.8 billion.

The domestic export value of basic metals and fabricated metal products surged 56.3% to $2.3 billion, and that for chemicals and chemical products rose 11.9% to $2.6 billion.

As for other manufacturing industries, the domestic export value of paper and paper products, printing and publishing fell 20.6% to $1 billion.