The table demonstrates the export values of different goods in two consecutive years, in 2009 and 2010, measured in HK dollars.
Overall, there were downward trends in the percentages of two categories, namely clothing and manufacturing, whilst other fields saw the reverse trend during the observed period, with metals seeing the most significant growth. By 2010, telecommunication exports surpassed equipment exports which reached a peak in 2009, becoming the highest valued category.
Looking at the table, it is clear that equipment remained the dominant export in the surveyed two years, leading with 10.3 billion in 2009 and increasing slightly to 11.3 billion in 2010, consistently accounting for one-third of total export revenue. However, this leading figure in 2009 was overtaken in 2010 by telecommunications whose export values surged by 61%, from 7.9 to 12.7 billion, making it to become the most valuable category for exportation in that year.
Metals also experienced twofold growth, from 2.3 to 5.1 billion, representing the highest proportion increase among entire categories (122%). Despite this, the figure for metals significantly remained lower than those for equipment and telecommunity.
In stark contrast to upward trends observed in other types of exportable goods, clothing and manufacturing were the pure categories recorded downward trends. Clothing exports dropped by 17%, from 6 billion to 5 billion. The falling-off was even more pronounced in the manufacturing sector, which underwent a 27% slump, with the figure decreasing from 5.5 to 4 $HK billion.