Hong Kong's six major industries accounted for 75% of the city's total domestic export value in the third quarter, with the domestic export value of chemicals and chemical products rising 15.3%, the Census & Statistics Department says.

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

The domestic export value of chemicals and chemical products rose 15.3% on a year earlier, to $3.1 billion, and that for basic metals and fabricated metal products grew 14.3%, to $2.3 billion.

For wearing apparel, the domestic export value dipped 42.7%, to $2.3 billion and textiles dropped 37.5%, to $5.7 billion.