Hong Kong's six major industries accounted for 75% of the city's total domestic export value in the second quarter, with the domestic export value of basic metals and fabricated metal products rising 15.9%, 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 14.1% on a year earlier, to $2.3 billion in this year's second quarter, and that for textiles dropped 35.7%, to $4.1 billion.

For consumer electrical and electronic products, the domestic export value dipped 15.5%, to $2.9 billion, while  wearing apparel fell 26.7%, to $2.7 billion.

The domestic export value of basic metals and fabricated metal products rose 15.9%, to $2.5 billion, and that for chemicals and chemical products rose 6.4%, to $3 billion.

As for other manufacturing industries, the domestic export value of paper and paper products, printing and publishing fell 6.3%, to $1.1 billion.