The chart illustrates the changes in the price of 5 different exported products in $HK Billion in the year 2009 and 2010.
Overall, there were rises in the export values of most categories, with the exception of clothing and manufacturing. Furthermore, what also stands out from the table is that equipment kicked off with the highest price but saw the smallest increase, while metals started with the lowest cost but experienced the greatest growth.
Looking first at the overall change in the export values, a significant rise was witnessed from 32 billion to 38.4 billion, marking an increase of 20%.
Moving on to products with downward patterns in export values, clothing began with 6 billion in 2009, then it declined to 5 billion in the following year, which was a -17% decrease. The figure for manufacturing saw a more remarkable fall of -27%, from 5.5 billion to 4 billion at the end of the period.
Turning finally to those categories that experienced increases, equipment’s export value in 2009 was the highest of the table at 10.3 billion, followed by telecommunication at 7.9 billion. By 2010, while the former’s value rose by 13% at 11.6 billion, a jump of 61% was seen in that of the latter, reaching 12.7 billion. Metals witnessed the most dramatic rise from 2.3 billion to 5.1 billion, which was more than twofold.