Aerospace, medical equipment, electronics, even pockets of the plastics and rubber products industry are still growing, says the National Association of Manufacturers.

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The main contributors to the drop in output were electronic parts and devices, information and communication electronics equipment and chemicals, said the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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Had we regulated the electronics industry as tightly as the medical industry, then much of the diagnostic and informatic equipment that we now take for granted would not have been invented here.

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