Imports account for about 43 percent of the $4.3 billion machine tool industry.

Many American exporters, particularly in the machine tools industry, simply went out of business.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the machine tool industry.

And the same thing is true whether it's the machine tool industry or the steel industry.

In recent months, machine tool industry executives have said that demand has increased from an array of industries.

Similar firms did the same thing in other industries and were especially important in the machine tool industry.

In the early and mid-l980s, a number of agreements with foreign manufacturers aimed to help China upgrade its machine tool industry.

He was arguably the last of the early pioneers of the machine tool industry.

The automobile, capital goods, construction and machine tools industries are virtually paralyzed.

Mr. Meyer comes to his position amid much turmoil within both the company and the machine tool industry.

It has protected the machine tool industry from foreign competition, also on the ground that the industry is "strategic."

James A. Gray, president of the association, said the machine tool industry had experienced a turnaround this year.

Optimism, because we know that the United States machine tool industry can regain lost ground and grow.

"And because the economy is slowing, the machine tool industry is directly affected.

The machine tool industry learned again last month that what Detroit giveth, it can also taketh away.

Some analysts have suggested that increased orders from auto makers would help stimulate the machine tool industry for the rest of the year.

Much of the merchant profits were reinvested in the textile and machine tools industries.

Heavy industry, with the machine tool industry as its linchpin, was given continuing priority.

One of the largest keys to the growth of the company was Norton's 1900 expansion into the machine tools industry.

I am referring to the machine tool industry, which is a key industry now suffering and struggling to keep seventh place in the world.

The Government can best help industry - including the machine tool industry - by providing a stable economic framework and low inflation.

"This year has been a turnaround time for the U.S. machine tool industry.

For example, attempts to protect America's machine tool industry from Japanese competitors were barely beaten back in the early 1980's.

Companies The machine tool industry is once again at the center of a debate that touches on the larger issues of trade policy and national security.

Analysts and machine tool industry officials said the decline had been expected because demand for machine tools usually decreases in July.