From the WhatTheyThink.com Economics and Research Center is a list of manufacturing industries that we are still bigger than, based on shipments from January through July 2008; it's a long list:
Printing |
$56,194 |
Beverages |
$53,678 |
Dairy products |
$51,111 |
Electromedical, measuring, and control instruments |
$49,717 |
Automobiles |
$48,865 |
Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills |
$48,560 |
Furniture and related products |
$45,381 |
Grain and oilseed milling |
$40,711 |
Semiconductors |
$36,888 |
Nondefense communications equipment |
$34,216 |
Defense aircraft and parts |
$30,417 |
Ventilation, heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration equipment |
$28,620 |
Paperboard containers |
$28,470 |
Pesticides, fertilizers, and otheragricultural chemicals |
$27,511 |
Electronic components |
$27,508 |
Turbines, generators, and other power transmission equipment |
$26,435 |
Tobacco |
$25,621 |
Electrical equipment |
$25,005 |
Computers |
$21,785 |
Industrial machinery |
$20,956 |
Textile mills |
$20,270 |
Paints, coatings, and adhesives |
$19,959 |
Defense search and navigation equipment |
$18,921 |
Material handling equipment |
$18,021 |
Apparel |
$17,851 |
Farm machinery |
$17,174 |
Construction machinery |
$16,964 |
Metalworking machinery |
$16,875 |
Ships and boats |
$16,652 |
Textile products |
$16,612 |
Household appliances |
$13,243 |
Ferrous metal foundries |
$12,856 |
Mining, oil field, and gas field machinery |
$10,611 |
Heavy duty trucks |
$10,019 |
Other peripheral equipment |
$9,049 |
Electric lighting equipment |
$7,079 |
Nondefense search and navigation equipment |
$ 6,810 |
Batteries |
$5,292 |
Defense communications equipment |
$4,539 |
Computer storage devices |
$4,377 |
Audio and video equipment |
$4,353 |
Photographic equipment |
$3,675 |
Leather and allied products |
$3,316 |
