Companies also started to spend more on capital goods since then.
It must be a purchase of capital goods, not services.
Now companies find themselves with more capital goods than they need for a slowing economy.
And there are some areas where we see demand beginning to improve in capital goods over the very short term.
Capital goods were not easy to come by for the peasantry.
In addition, the relative price of capital goods stopped declining.
I think that American capital goods production will grow at a rate better than the economy because of heavy exports.
Capital goods get their value from the final products.
Then the question arises, how do we measure the "real" amount of capital goods?
This is inconsistent with the quantities of capital goods being taken as data.
Fifty percent of Germany's exports are capital goods.
More sensitive to pricing shifts have been capital goods, the sector that has benefited most from the falling dollar.
Other sectors that showed increases were capital goods, machinery and communications equipment.
Among the strongest American exports are capital goods like commercial aircraft and computer semiconductors, food and beverages, household appliances, industrial supplies, weapons, information technology and biotechnology.
Most of Poland's imports are capital goods needed for industrial retooling and for manufacturing inputs, rather than imports for consumption.
Imports, such as farm equipment and transport equipment, are capital goods that are worth more than agricultural products, hence Mozambique's large trade deficit.
"We're in an early phase of recovery in Europe and so capital goods are attractive, things like chemicals and oil shares," Mr. Sullivan said.
Mexico also reports that 35 percent of 1992 United States reported exports to Mexico were capital goods.
The principal imports were capital goods, foodstuffs, and consumer goods.
The rest were capital goods to build productive capacity and raw materials and energy to drive those factories.
