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Industries (Country profile category: Economy)

Afghanistan:
small-scale production of textiles, soap, furniture, shoes, fertilizer, and cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, oil, coal, copper

Albania:
food processing, textiles and clothing; lumber, oil, cement, chemicals, mining, basic metals, hydropower

Algeria:
petroleum, natural gas, light industries, mining, electrical, petrochemical, food processing

American Samoa:
tuna canneries (largely dependent on foreign fishing vessels), handicrafts

Andorra:
tourism (particularly skiing), cattle raising, timber, tobacco, banking

Angola:
petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; fish processing; food processing; brewing; tobacco products; sugar; textiles

Anguilla:
tourism, boat building, offshore financial services

Antigua and Barbuda:
tourism, construction, light manufacturing (clothing, alcohol, household appliances)

Argentina:
food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, textiles, chemicals and petrochemicals, printing, metallurgy, steel

Armenia:
metal-cutting machine tools, forging-pressing machines, electric motors, tires, knitted wear, hosiery, shoes, silk fabric, washing machines, chemicals, trucks, watches, instruments, microelectronics

Aruba:
tourism, transshipment facilities, oil refining

Australia:
mining, industrial and transportation equipment, food processing, chemicals, steel

Austria:
construction, machinery, vehicles and parts, food, chemicals, lumber and wood processing, paper and paperboard, communications equipment, tourism (1997)

Azerbaijan:
petroleum and natural gas, petroleum products, oilfield equipment; steel, iron ore, cement; chemicals and petrochemicals; textiles

Bahamas, The:
tourism, banking, cement, oil refining and transshipment, salt, rum, aragonite, pharmaceuticals, spiral-welded steel pipe

Bahrain:
petroleum processing and refining, aluminum smelting, offshore banking, ship repairing; tourism

Bangladesh:
cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar

Barbados:
tourism, sugar, light manufacturing, component assembly for export

Belarus:
metal-cutting machine tools, tractors, trucks, earth movers, motorcycles, TV sets, chemical fibers, fertilizer, textiles, radios, refrigerators

Belgium:
engineering and metal products, motor vehicle assembly, processed food and beverages, chemicals, basic metals, textiles, glass, petroleum, coal

Belize:
garment production, food processing, tourism, construction

Benin:
textiles, cigarettes; beverages, food; construction materials, petroleum

Bermuda:
tourism, finance, insurance, structural concrete products, paints, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, ship repairing

Bhutan:
cement, wood products, processed fruits, alcoholic beverages, calcium carbide

Bolivia:
mining, smelting, petroleum, food and beverages, tobacco, handicrafts, clothing

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
steel, coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, manganese, bauxite, vehicle assembly, textiles, tobacco products, wooden furniture, tank and aircraft assembly, domestic appliances, oil refining (much of capacity damaged or shut down) (1995)

Botswana:
diamonds, copper, nickel, coal, salt, soda ash, potash; livestock processing

Brazil:
textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and equipment

British Virgin Islands:
tourism, light industry, construction, rum, concrete block, offshore financial center

Brunei:
petroleum, petroleum refining, liquefied natural gas, construction

Bulgaria:
machine building and metal working, food processing, chemicals, construction materials, ferrous and nonferrous metals, nuclear fuel

Burkina Faso:
cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes, textiles, gold

Burma:
agricultural processing; textiles and footwear; wood and wood products; copper, tin, tungsten, iron; construction materials; pharmaceuticals; fertilizer

Burundi:
light consumer goods such as blankets, shoes, soap; assembly of imported components; public works construction; food processing

Cambodia:
garments, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, rubber, cement, gem mining, textiles

Cameroon:
petroleum production and refining, food processing, light consumer goods, textiles, lumber

Canada:
processed and unprocessed minerals, food products, wood and paper products, transportation equipment, chemicals, fish products, petroleum and natural gas

Cape Verde:
food and beverages, fish processing, shoes and garments, salt mining, ship repair

Cayman Islands:
tourism, banking, insurance and finance, construction, construction materials, furniture

Central African Republic:
diamond mining, sawmills, breweries, textiles, footwear, assembly of bicycles and motorcycles

Chad:
cotton textiles, meat packing, beer brewing, natron (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials

Chile:
copper, other minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing, iron and steel, wood and wood products, transport equipment, cement, textiles

China:
iron and steel, coal, machine building, armaments, textiles and apparel, petroleum, cement, chemical fertilizers, footwear, toys, food processing, automobiles, consumer electronics, telecommunications

Christmas Island:
tourism, phosphate extraction (near depletion)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
copra products and tourism

Colombia:
textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds

Comoros:
tourism, perfume distillation, textiles, furniture, jewelry, construction materials, soft drinks

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
mining, mineral processing, consumer products (including textiles, footwear, cigarettes, processed foods and beverages), cement, diamonds

Congo, Republic of the:
petroleum extraction, cement kilning, lumbering, brewing, sugar milling, palm oil, soap, cigarette making

Cook Islands:
fruit processing, tourism

Costa Rica:
microprocessors, food processing, textiles and clothing, construction materials, fertilizer, plastic products

Cote d'Ivoire:
foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, automobile assembly, textiles, fertilizer, construction materials, electricity

Croatia:
chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal, electronics, pig iron and rolled steel products, aluminum, paper, wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding, petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages; tourism

Cuba:
sugar, petroleum, food, tobacco, textiles, chemicals, paper and wood products, metals (particularly nickel), cement, fertilizers, consumer goods, agricultural machinery

Cyprus:
food, beverages, textiles, chemicals, metal products, tourism, wood products

Czech Republic:
fuels, ferrous metallurgy, machinery and equipment, coal, motor vehicles, glass, armaments

Denmark:
food processing, machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, chemical products, electronics, construction, furniture, and other wood products, shipbuilding

Djibouti:
limited to a few small-scale enterprises, such as dairy products and mineral-water bottling

Dominica:
soap, coconut oil, tourism, copra, furniture, cement blocks, shoes

Dominican Republic:
tourism, sugar processing, ferronickel and gold mining, textiles, cement, tobacco

Ecuador:
petroleum, food processing, textiles, metal work, paper products, wood products, chemicals, plastics, fishing, lumber

Egypt:
textiles, food processing, tourism, chemicals, petroleum, construction, cement, metals

El Salvador:
food processing, beverages, petroleum, chemicals, fertilizer, textiles, furniture, light metals

Equatorial Guinea:
petroleum, fishing, sawmilling, natural gas

Eritrea:
food processing, beverages, clothing and textiles

Estonia:
oil shale, shipbuilding, phosphates, electric motors, excavators, cement, furniture, clothing, textiles, paper, shoes, apparel

Ethiopia:
food processing, beverages, textiles, chemicals, metals processing, cement

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):
wool and fish processing; sale of stamps and coins

Faroe Islands:
fishing, shipbuilding, construction, handicrafts

Fiji:
tourism, sugar, clothing, copra, gold, silver, lumber, small cottage industries

Finland:
metal products, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, copper refining, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing

France:
steel, machinery, chemicals, automobiles, metallurgy, aircraft, electronics, mining; textiles, food processing; tourism

French Guiana:
construction, shrimp processing, forestry products, rum, gold mining

French Polynesia:
tourism, pearls, agricultural processing, handicrafts

Gabon:
food and beverage; textile; lumbering and plywood; cement; petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, uranium, and gold mining; chemicals; ship repair

Gambia, The:
processing peanuts, fish, and hides; tourism; beverages; agricultural machinery assembly, woodworking, metalworking; clothing

Gaza Strip:
generally small family businesses that produce textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs; the Israelis have established some small-scale modern industries in an industrial center

Georgia:
steel, aircraft, machine tools, electric locomotives, trucks, tractors, textiles, shoes, chemicals, wood products, wine

Germany:
among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages; shipbuilding; textiles

Ghana:
mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing

Gibraltar:
tourism, banking and finance, ship-building and repairing; support to large UK naval and air bases; tobacco, mineral water, beer, canned fish

Greece:
tourism; food and tobacco processing, textiles; chemicals, metal products; mining, petroleum

Greenland:
fish processing (mainly shrimp), handicrafts, furs, small shipyards

Grenada:
food and beverages, textiles, light assembly operations, tourism, construction

Guadeloupe:
construction, cement, rum, sugar, tourism

Guam:
US military, tourism, construction, transshipment services, concrete products, printing and publishing, food processing, textiles

Guatemala:
sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism

Guernsey:
tourism, banking

Guinea:
bauxite, gold, diamonds; alumina refining; light manufacturing and agricultural processing industries

Guinea-Bissau:
agricultural products processing, beer, soft drinks

Guyana:
bauxite, sugar, rice milling, timber, fishing (shrimp), textiles, gold mining

Haiti:
sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, tourism, light assembly industries based on imported parts

Holy See (Vatican City):
printing and production of a small amount of mosaics and staff uniforms; worldwide banking and financial activities

Honduras:
sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products

Hong Kong:
textiles, clothing, tourism, electronics, plastics, toys, watches, clocks

Hungary:
mining, metallurgy, construction materials, processed foods, textiles, chemicals (especially pharmaceuticals), motor vehicles

Iceland:
fish processing; aluminum smelting, ferrosilicon production, geothermal power; tourism

India:
textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery

Indonesia:
petroleum and natural gas; textiles, apparel, and footwear; mining, cement, chemical fertilizers, plywood; rubber; food; tourism

Iran:
petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining and vegetable oil production), metal fabricating, armaments

Iraq:
petroleum, chemicals, textiles, construction materials, food processing

Ireland:
food products, brewing, textiles, clothing; chemicals, pharmaceuticals, machinery, transportation equipment, glass and crystal; software

Israel:
food processing, diamond cutting and polishing, textiles and apparel, chemicals, metal products, military equipment, transport equipment, electrical equipment, potash mining, high-technology electronics, tourism

Italy:
tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics

Jamaica:
tourism, bauxite, textiles, food processing, light manufactures, rum, cement, metal, paper, chemical products

Japan:
among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals; textiles, processed foods

Jersey:
tourism, banking and finance, dairy

Jordan:
phosphate mining, petroleum refining, cement, potash, light manufacturing, tourism

Kazakhstan:
oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, chromite, lead, zinc, copper, titanium, bauxite, gold, silver, phosphates, sulfur, iron and steel, nonferrous metal, tractors and other agricultural machinery, electric motors, construction materials

Kenya:
small-scale consumer goods (plastic, furniture, batteries, textiles, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural products processing; oil refining, cement; tourism

Kiribati:
fishing, handicrafts

Korea, North:
military products; machine building, electric power, chemicals; mining (coal, iron ore, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals), metallurgy; textiles, food processing; tourism

Korea, South:
electronics, automobile production, chemicals, shipbuilding, steel, textiles, clothing, footwear, food processing

Kuwait:
petroleum, petrochemicals, desalination, food processing, construction materials, salt, construction

Kyrgyzstan:
small machinery, textiles, food processing, cement, shoes, sawn logs, refrigerators, furniture, electric motors, gold, rare earth metals

Laos:
tin and gypsum mining, timber, electric power, agricultural processing, construction, garments

Latvia:
buses, vans, street and railroad cars, synthetic fibers, agricultural machinery, fertilizers, washing machines, radios, electronics, pharmaceuticals, processed foods, textiles; dependent on imports for energy, raw materials, and intermediate products

Lebanon:
banking; food processing; jewelry; cement; textiles; mineral and chemical products; wood and furniture products; oil refining; metal fabricating

Lesotho:
food, beverages, textiles, handicrafts; construction; tourism

Liberia:
rubber processing, palm oil processing, diamonds

Libya:
petroleum, food processing, textiles, handicrafts, cement

Liechtenstein:
electronics, metal manufacturing, textiles, ceramics, pharmaceuticals, food products, precision instruments, tourism

Lithuania:
metal-cutting machine tools, electric motors, television sets, refrigerators and freezers, petroleum refining, shipbuilding (small ships), furniture making, textiles, food processing, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, optical equipment, electronic components, computers, amber

Luxembourg:
banking, iron and steel, food processing, chemicals, metal products, engineering, tires, glass, aluminum

Macau:
clothing, textiles, toys, electronics, footwear, tourism, gambling

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
coal, metallic chromium, lead, zinc, ferronickel, textiles, wood products, tobacco

Madagascar:
meat processing, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, tourism

Malawi:
tobacco, tea, sugar, sawmill products, cement, consumer goods

Malaysia:
Peninsular Malaysia - rubber and oil palm processing and manufacturing, light manufacturing industry, electronics, tin mining and smelting, logging and processing timber; Sabah - logging, petroleum production; Sarawak - agriculture processing, petroleum production and refining, logging

Maldives:
fish processing, tourism, shipping, boat building, coconut processing, garments, woven mats, rope, handicrafts, coral and sand mining

Mali:
minor local consumer goods production and food processing; construction; phosphate and gold mining

Malta:
tourism; electronics, ship building and repair, construction; food and beverages, textiles, footwear, clothing, tobacco

Man, Isle of:
financial services, light manufacturing, tourism

Marshall Islands:
copra, fish, tourism, craft items from shell, wood, and pearls, offshore banking (embryonic)

Martinique:
construction, rum, cement, oil refining, sugar, tourism

Mauritania:
fish processing, mining of iron ore and gypsum

Mauritius:
food processing (largely sugar milling), textiles, clothing; chemicals, metal products, transport equipment, nonelectrical machinery; tourism

Mayotte:
newly created lobster and shrimp industry, construction

Mexico:
food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, tourism

Micronesia, Federated States of:
tourism, construction, fish processing, craft items from shell, wood, and pearls

Moldova:
food processing, agricultural machinery, foundry equipment, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, hosiery, sugar, vegetable oil, shoes, textiles

Monaco:
tourism, construction, small-scale industrial and consumer products

Mongolia:
construction materials, mining (particularly coal and copper); food and beverages, processing of animal products

Montserrat:
tourism, rum, textiles, electronic appliances

Morocco:
phosphate rock mining and processing, food processing, leather goods, textiles, construction, tourism

Mozambique:
food, beverages, chemicals (fertilizer, soap, paints), petroleum products, textiles, cement, glass, asbestos, tobacco

Namibia:
meat packing, fish processing, dairy products; mining (diamond, lead, zinc, tin, silver, tungsten, uranium, copper)

Nauru:
phosphate mining, financial services, coconut products

Nepal:
tourism, carpet, textile; small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed mills; cigarette; cement and brick production

Netherlands:
agroindustries, metal and engineering products, electrical machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum, construction, microelectronics, fishing

Netherlands Antilles:
tourism (Curacao, Sint Maarten, and Bonaire), petroleum refining (Curacao), petroleum transshipment facilities (Curacao and Bonaire), light manufacturing (Curacao)

New Caledonia:
nickel mining and smelting

New Zealand:
food processing, wood and paper products, textiles, machinery, transportation equipment, banking and insurance, tourism, mining

Nicaragua:
food processing, chemicals, machinery and metal products, textiles, clothing, petroleum refining and distribution, beverages, footwear, wood

Niger:
uranium mining, cement, brick, textiles, food processing, chemicals, slaughterhouses

Nigeria:
crude oil, coal, tin, columbite, palm oil, peanuts, cotton, rubber, wood, hides and skins, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food products, footwear, chemicals, fertilizer, printing, ceramics, steel

Niue:
tourism, handicrafts, food processing

Norfolk Island:
tourism

Northern Mariana Islands:
tourism, construction, garments, handicrafts

Norway:
petroleum and gas, food processing, shipbuilding, pulp and paper products, metals, chemicals, timber, mining, textiles, fishing

Oman:
crude oil production and refining, natural gas production, construction, cement, copper

Pakistan:
textiles, food processing, beverages, construction materials, clothing, paper products, shrimp

Palau:
tourism, craft items (from shell, wood, pearls), construction, garment making

Panama:
construction, petroleum refining, brewing, cement and other construction materials, sugar milling

Papua New Guinea:
copra crushing, palm oil processing, plywood production, wood chip production; mining of gold, silver, and copper; crude oil production; construction, tourism

Paraguay:
sugar, cement, textiles, beverages, wood products

Peru:
mining of metals, petroleum, fishing, textiles, clothing, food processing, cement, auto assembly, steel, shipbuilding, metal fabrication

Philippines:
textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, wood products, food processing, electronics assembly, petroleum refining, fishing

Pitcairn Islands:
postage stamps, handicrafts

Poland:
machine building, iron and steel, coal mining, chemicals, shipbuilding, food processing, glass, beverages, textiles

Portugal:
textiles and footwear; wood pulp, paper, and cork; metalworking; oil refining; chemicals; fish canning; wine; tourism

Puerto Rico:
pharmaceuticals, electronics, apparel, food products; tourism

Qatar:
crude oil production and refining, fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel reinforcing bars, cement

Reunion:
sugar, rum, cigarettes, handicraft items, flower oil extraction

Romania:
mining, timber, construction materials, metallurgy, chemicals, machine building, food processing, petroleum production and refining

Russia:
complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles; shipbuilding; road and rail transportation equipment; communications equipment; agricultural machinery, tractors, and construction equipment; electric power generating and transmitting equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer durables, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts

Rwanda:
cement, agricultural products, small-scale beverages, soap, furniture, shoes, plastic goods, textiles, cigarettes

Saint Helena:
construction, crafts (furniture, lacework, fancy woodwork), fishing

Saint Kitts and Nevis:
sugar processing, tourism, cotton, salt, copra, clothing, footwear, beverages

Saint Lucia:
clothing, assembly of electronic components, beverages, corrugated cardboard boxes, tourism, lime processing, coconut processing

Saint Pierre and Miquelon:
fish processing and supply base for fishing fleets; tourism

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch

Samoa:
timber, tourism, food processing, fishing

San Marino:
tourism, banking, textiles, electronics, ceramics, cement, wine

Sao Tome and Principe:
light construction, textiles, soap, beer; fish processing; timber

Saudi Arabia:
crude oil production, petroleum refining, basic petrochemicals, cement, construction, fertilizer, plastics

Senegal:
agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining, fertilizer production, petroleum refining, construction materials

Serbia and Montenegro:
machine building (aircraft, trucks, and automobiles; tanks and weapons; electrical equipment; agricultural machinery); metallurgy (steel, aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, chromium, antimony, bismuth, cadmium); mining (coal, bauxite, nonferrous ore, iron ore, limestone); consumer goods (textiles, footwear, foodstuffs, appliances); electronics, petroleum products, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals

Seychelles:
fishing; tourism; processing of coconuts and vanilla, coir (coconut fiber) rope, boat building, printing, furniture; beverages

Sierra Leone:
mining (diamonds); small-scale manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear); petroleum refining

Singapore:
electronics, financial services, oil drilling equipment, petroleum refining, rubber processing and rubber products, processed food and beverages, ship repair, entrepot trade, biotechnology

Slovakia:
metal and metal products; food and beverages; electricity, gas, coke, oil, nuclear fuel; chemicals and manmade fibers; machinery; paper and printing; earthenware and ceramics; transport vehicles; textiles; electrical and optical apparatus; rubber products

Slovenia:
ferrous metallurgy and rolling mill products, aluminum reduction and rolled products, lead and zinc smelting, electronics (including military electronics), trucks, electric power equipment, wood products, textiles, chemicals, machine tools

Solomon Islands:
fish (tuna), mining, timber

Somalia:
a few small industries, including sugar refining, textiles, petroleum refining (mostly shut down)

South Africa:
mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium), automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textile, iron and steel, chemicals, fertilizer, foodstuffs

Spain:
textiles and apparel (including footwear), food and beverages, metals and metal manufactures, chemicals, shipbuilding, automobiles, machine tools, tourism

Sri Lanka:
processing of rubber, tea, coconuts, and other agricultural commodities; clothing, cement, petroleum refining, textiles, tobacco

Sudan:
cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining

Suriname:
bauxite and gold mining, alumina and aluminum production, lumbering, food processing, fishing

Swaziland:
mining (coal and asbestos), wood pulp, sugar, soft drink concentrates

Sweden:
iron and steel, precision equipment (bearings, radio and telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp and paper products, processed foods, motor vehicles

Switzerland:
machinery, chemicals, watches, textiles, precision instruments

Syria:
petroleum, textiles, food processing, beverages, tobacco, phosphate rock mining

Tajikistan:
aluminum, zinc, lead, chemicals and fertilizers, cement, vegetable oil, metal-cutting machine tools, refrigerators and freezers

Tanzania:
primarily agricultural processing (sugar, beer, cigarettes, sisal twine), diamond and gold mining, oil refining, shoes, cement, textiles, wood products, fertilizer, salt

Thailand:
tourism; textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing, such as jewelry; electric appliances and components, computers and parts, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics; world's second-largest tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer

Togo:
phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement; handicrafts, textiles, beverages

Tokelau:
small-scale enterprises for copra production, wood work, plaited craft goods; stamps, coins; fishing

Tonga:
tourism, fishing

Trinidad and Tobago:
petroleum, chemicals, tourism, food processing, cement, beverage, cotton textiles

Tunisia:
petroleum, mining (particularly phosphate and iron ore), tourism, textiles, footwear, food, beverages

Turkey:
textiles, food processing, autos, mining (coal, chromite, copper, boron), steel, petroleum, construction, lumber, paper

Turkmenistan:
natural gas, oil, petroleum products, textiles, food processing

Turks and Caicos Islands:
tourism, offshore financial services

Tuvalu:
fishing, tourism, copra

Uganda:
sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles, cement

Ukraine:
coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food-processing (especially sugar)

United Arab Emirates:
petroleum, fishing, petrochemicals, construction materials, some boat building, handicrafts, pearling

United Kingdom:
production machinery including machine tools, electric power equipment, automation equipment, railroad equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, electronics and communications equipment, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, paper and paper products, food processing, textiles, clothing, and other consumer goods

United States:
leading industrial power in the world, highly diversified and technologically advanced; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining

Uruguay:
food processing, electrical machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products, textiles, chemicals, beverages

Uzbekistan:
textiles, food processing, machine building, metallurgy, natural gas

Vanuatu:
food and fish freezing, wood processing, meat canning

Venezuela:
petroleum, iron ore mining, construction materials, food processing, textiles, steel, aluminum, motor vehicle assembly

Vietnam:
food processing, garments, shoes, machine building, mining, cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, coal, steel, paper

Virgin Islands:
tourism, petroleum refining, watch assembly, rum distilling, construction, pharmaceuticals, textiles, electronics

Wallis and Futuna:
copra, handicrafts, fishing, lumber

West Bank:
generally small family businesses that produce cement, textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs; the Israelis have established some small-scale, modern industries in the settlements and industrial centers

Western Sahara:
phosphate mining, handicrafts

World:
dominated by the onrush of technology, especially in computers, robotics, telecommunications, and medicines and medical equipment; most of these advances take place in OECD nations; only a small portion of non-OECD countries have succeeded in rapidly adjusting to these technological forces; the accelerated development of new industrial (and agricultural) technology is complicating already grim environmental problems

Yemen:
crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement

Zambia:
copper mining and processing, construction, foodstuffs, beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer

Zimbabwe:
mining (coal, gold, copper, nickel, tin, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic ores), steel, wood products, cement, chemicals, fertilizer, clothing and footwear, foodstuffs, beverages

Taiwan:
electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, textiles, iron and steel, machinery, cement, food processing

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