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In the first quarter of 2007, the value of four major industries' domestic exports fell sharply, from 38% to 58%. These industries accounted for 59% of Hong Kong's total domestic manufactured goods exports.
Among them, the value of wearing-apparel industry domestic exports fell $4 billion, or 58.3%, compared with the same quarter in 2006, to $2.9 billion, while electrical and electronic products industry domestic exports fell $3.4 billion, or 53.3%, to $3 billion.
Textiles industry; and machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts and components industry fell 42.1% and 38%, to $4.3 billion and $2.6 billion.
The chemicals and chemical products industry registered a notable increase in domestic exports' value. It rose $0.3 billion, or 16.3%, over a year earlier to $2.3 billion.
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