The total merchandise export from Macao for November 2019 amounted to 1.13 billion patacas (about 140.90 million U.S. dollars), up by 10.6 percent year-on-year, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistics service said here Thursday.

The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the value of re-exports increased by 7.6 percent to 967 million patacas (about 121 million dollars), with that of other jewellery (except diamond jewellery) jumping by 286.4 percent.

The value of domestic exports rose by 33.1 percent to 165 million patacas (about 21 million dollars), with that of tobacco surging by 243.7 percent.

From January to November 2019, the total value of merchandise export increased by 4.9 percent year-on-year to 11.69 billion patacas (about 1.46 billion dollars), of which the value of re-exports grew by 6.1 percent to 10.33 billion patacas (about 1.29 billion dollars), but that of domestic exports declined by 3.8 percent to 1.36 billion patacas (about 169.58 million dollars).

Analyzed by destination, merchandise export to the Chinese mainland dropped by 22.1 percent year-on-year to 1.44 billion patacas (about 179.55 million dollars) from January to November 2019.

Exports to the European Union fell by 8.4 percent year-on-year to 175 million patacas (about 22 million dollars), whereas exports to Hong Kong SAR (7.49 billion patacas or 933.92 million dollars) and the United States (249 million patacas or 31 million dollars) expanded by 7.7 percent and 108.0 percent respectively.

From January to November 2019, exports of textiles and garments totaled 956 million patacas (about 119 million dollars), up by 46.6 percent. Exports of non-textiles went up by 2.3 percent year-on-year to 10.73 billion patacas (about 1.34 billion dollars).