18 June 2001, 12:44  German April manufacturing, mining sales rose 9.8% on year

Frankfurt, Jun 18 (BridgeNews) - German manufacturing and mining sales in April rose 9.8% from a year earlier to 212.7 billion Deutsche marks (108.7 billion euros), the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said Monday. The increase in sales abroad continued to show a positive trend with a rise of 14.2% to 78.1 billion marks (39.9 billion euros). In the period from January to April manufacturing and mining sales rose by 8.9% on the year to 869.4 billion marks (444.5 billion euros), while sales abroad rose by 13.9% on a year-to-year basis for the same period to 326.5 billion marks (166.9 billion euros). In March, German industry sales were up 4.9% on the year, following a 4.8% rise in February. Foreign sales for both months were up 9.8%.

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