In July 2016, output decreased slightly in the manufacturing industry (-0.3%), after a sharper fall in June (-1.1%). It declined again in the whole industry (-0.6% after -0.7%).

Manufacturing output diminished over the past three months (-0.4%)

Over the past three months, output decreased in the manufacturing industry (-0.4% q-o-q). It fell more markedly in the overall industry (-0.7% q-o-q).

Output decreased sharply in mining and quarrying; energy; water supply (-2.4%), in the manufacture of food products and beverages (-1.2%), in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (-0.7%) and in that of transport equipment (-0.8%). It tumbled in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (-13.6%). By contrast it was virtually stable in "other manufacturing".