Under the old Soviet central planning system, Armenia had developed a modern industrial sector, supplying machine tools, textiles, and other manufactured goods to sister republics in exchange for raw materials and energy.

Food and beverages constitute some 40 percent of the sector, but textiles and leather are also important, the latter especially for the export market.

Georgia's economy has traditionally revolved around Black Sea tourism, cultivation of citrus fruits, tea and grapes ; mining of manganese and copper ; and output of a big industrial sector producing wine, metals, machinery, chemicals, and textiles.

At its golden age in the 1980s, the manufacturing sector accounted for about 40 % of Macau's GDP ; textiles and garments accounted for about 90 % of Macau's total visible exports.

The production of textiles and clothing is part of a growing manufacturing sector that accounted for approximately 34 % of total exports in 2002, employing 40 % of the industrial workforce.

The state soon developed native industries in shipbuilding and textiles, a centrally planned and administered agricultural sector, which was more diversified and productive than the prior export monoculture, and other manufacturing capabilities.

The sector now represents 23 percent of GDP and is tied heavily to mining, fishing, agriculture, construction and textiles.

The most promising sector is textiles, metal mechanics, food industry, agricultural industry, manufactures, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, machinery and services.

The continued vibrancy of the export sector is threatened by the removal of trade preferences for textiles, the accession to similar preferences for East Asian countries, and the phasing out of preferential prices for sugar to the EU market.

The demand for war supplies stimulated the industrial sector, particularly naval supplies, munitions and textiles, which gave Britain an advantage in international trade during the postwar years.

The manufacturing sector consists of petroleum refining, textiles, electronics, rum distilling, pharmaceuticals, and watch assembly.

The Belgian Government reacted with poor macroeconomic policies to the 1973 and 1979 oil price hikes by hiring the redundant work force into the public sector and subsidizing industries like coal, steel, textiles, glass, and shipbuilding, which had lost their international competitive edge.

The textiles industry was the second largest manufacturing sector after the food industry in the 1970s and was of decreasing importance afterwards, representing progressively diminishing value of total manufacturing.

During the middle of the nineteenth century the prefecture, traditionally a centre of commerce with a manufacturing sector focused on textiles, was an early beneficiary of railway development, becoming an important railway junction.

The city suffered an economic downturn in the 1980s with the loss of its remaining manufacturing sector jobs in glass and textiles.

The main economic activities in Caruaru in industry ( especially textiles ), tourism, commerce, and handicrafts, and in the primary sector, especially the raising of goats, chickens, and cows, and the production of milk.

Currently Canosa is a center based mainly on agriculture, with a service sector ( archaeological tourism ) and industry and handicrafts ( textiles, food processing and manufacturing ).

The market square today is still home to market stalls on each Saturday through the year and with the rise in the town's commercial retail sector in recent years, the market has shifted its traditional trading from agricultural produce to mainly textiles and home hardware.

The population was multiplied by eight, its industry boosted, particularly textiles and metals, and its economy was modernized in the service sector.

There is also a strong industrial sector which focuses on the processing of potato, sugar, milk, and cheese and the production of textiles.

Pouso Alegre is an industrial center with industries in the food sector, textiles, and metallurgy.

The demand for war supplies stimulated the industrial sector, particularly naval supplies, munitions and textiles, which gave Britain an advantage in international trade during the postwar years.

The economy of the town is mostly based on activities connected with agriculture and commerce, as well as a sound industrial sector: textiles, foods, engineering, building materials and ceramics.

The economy has grown dramatically in recent years, particularly due to the manufacturing sector with the building of a metal processing complex supplied with iron ore from Rif and anthracite from Jerada and the textiles, chemicals and electronics industries.

Since the 1920s, it has experienced rapid growth and established many industries for agricultural products and machinery, textiles, pharmaceuticals, metal products, and services.

The top manufacturing sectors — food processing, cigarettes and tobacco, textiles, chemicals, and electrical goods — experienced rapid growth.

Since 1980, San Juan has experienced an industrial expansion that now includes, in addition to the wineries, food processing plants, chemical, plastics, iron, auto parts and textiles factories.

When cotton was introduced as a base to make textiles, Littleborough experienced an influx of families, mostly from the neighbouring West Riding of Yorkshire.

Strong in textiles ( linen and embroidery ) and handicraft ( clay bricks from Fornaci Giorgi ), after World War II Ferentino experienced a heavy industrial growth, mainly in pharmaceuticals.

The logistics and service sectors have experienced the strongest growth in recent years, while the traditional industries ( textiles, mining, metallurgy ) have experienced a decline and consequently the region has experienced a major difficulty with a rising unemployment rate that is near the national average.

Vietnam ’ s principal exports were crude oil ( 22. 1 %), textiles and garments ( 17. 1 %), footwear ( 10. 5 %), fisheries products ( 9. 4 %) and electronics ( 4. 1 %).

A cargo tally printed by William Milburn in 1813 is instructive: first are the chests of tea of Bohea, 1, 030, 642 pounds of it, in 2885 chests, Congou ( 90, 589 pounds ), Souchong ( 67, 388 pounds ), Pekoe ( 17, 205 pounds ), Hyson and " Hyson Skin " ( 5713 pounds together ); textiles are listed next: damasks and heavier damasks for furniture, satin, some of it " coloured and flowered ", paduasoy, gorgoron, taffetas, lampas and Nankeen cloth, as well as 33 chests of raw silk ; drugs: galangal root and " China root ", sago and rhubarb ; mother-of-pearl, some of it cut in thin " jettoons " for gaming counters, and thin canes for hoops, painted wallpapers, and lacquer (" japanned ") quadrille boxes and toilet tables and tablets for table tops ; 6 tons of arrack ; and porcelain, in 274 chests and 989 barrels and other packages.

This grosses to around 363, 000 tonnes across all charity shops in the UK ; based on 2010 landfill tax value at £ 48 per tonne, the value of textiles reused or passed for recycling by charity shops in terms of savings in landfill tax is £ 17, 424, 000 p. a.

Other important modern industries include textiles, brick-making and steel ; and Sottomarina, with 60 hotels and 17 campgrounds, is almost entirely given over to seafront tourism.

29. 1 % ( 2008 ) Electronic components, food processing, textiles and apparel, construction materials, cement, fertilizer.

The combined effect of declining prices of textiles and rising prices of livestock products produced dramatic improvements in the terms of trade, which rose 377 % between 1810 and 1825 in local prices.

The most prominent, the Bonyad-e Mostazafen va Janbazan, ( Foundation for the Oppressed and Disabled ), for example, " controls 20 % of the country's production of textiles, 40 % of soft drinks, two-thirds of all glass products and a dominant share also in tiles, chemicals, tires, foodstuffs.

Despite the post-war boom, the cotton industry continued to decline, and only 25 % of the town's population were employed in textiles by 1951: it had been 60 % up to the beginning of the Great Depression, in 1929.

According to other sources, Mary Province accounts for 81 % of fertilizer production, 40 % of textiles, 81 % of leather, and 23 % of footwear.

Manufacturing ( less than 10 % of output ) consists of small industrial enterprises centred mainly on food, textiles and leather.

Industries include chemical engineering, textiles, oil, metal products, metallurgy and printed matter. It is an industrial city, but more than 60 % of Santo André's total area are protected by environmental water laws.

While manufacturing has dwindled in its relative importance to the city's economy, there is still a strong manufacturing sector ( the fourth largest in the UK, accounting for well over 60 % of Scotland ’ s manufactured exports ) particularly in the areas of engineering and shipbuilding, chemicals, food and drink, printing, publishing and textiles, as well as new growth sectors such as software and biotechnology, 20 % of the UK ’ s biotechnology sector is based in and around Glasgow which forms the UK ’ s third Biotechnology centre after Cambridge and London.