In 2007, five major industries including textiles and apparel, machinery, equipment, apparatus and chemicals together accounted for 72% of Hong Kong's total domestic exports, according to statistics released by the Census and Statistics Department.

In 2007, the value of domestic exports classified to the the wearing apparel industry by $7.3 billion or 33.6% to $14.4 billion, that for the machinery, equipment, apparatus, and components industry by $5.4 billion or 33.2% to $10.9 billion, and that for the textiles industry by $6.6 billion or 18.9% to $28.1 billion.

On the other hand, the value of domestic exports classified to the chemicals and chemical products industry increased by $1.3 billion or 14.2% over a year earlier to $10.5 billion.

These statistics of domestic exports classified by industrial origin are derived by re-grouping the merchandise domestic export items originally grouped under the external trade classification system according to the industries in which these merchandise items are normally produced.