摘要：The focus of this chapter is on global trade in manufactures.
Firstly, the role of developing countries in the recent
growth of manufactured exports is reviewed. Attention
then turns to some important structural changes
taking place in global trade in manufactured goods, including
the increasing technological sophistication of
manufactured exports from developing countries. Manufactured
goods constitute the vast bulk of world trade.
Despite the commodity boom of recent years, manufactured
exports accounted for 81 per cent of total world
exports in 2005 (Figure 10.1), a share that has been remarkably
stable over the past 15 years. The share of
manufactured exports in total exports has fluctuated between
80 and 85 per cent since 1990.
