The volume of industrial production – according to seasonally and working-day adjusted indices – fell below the level of the previous month by 2.4% in June, KSH said.
The volume of industrial export sales declined by 0.9% in June, as compared to the same month a year earlier, while industrial domestic sales fell by 4.1%, the office reported.
Of the sectors of industry, production increased by 0.2% in manufacturing, which represents a decisive weight (96%), and by 1.2% in the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply), while it dropped by 5.3% in mining and quarrying (which carry little weight) in year-on-year terms in June.
Total new orders in the observed subsections of manufacturing declined by 2.6%. Within this, the volume of new domestic orders rose by 1.9%, while that of new export orders dropped by 3.3%, the KSH noted.
In the first half of the year, industrial production rose by 2.3%, with the volume of export sales – representing 66% of all sales – growing by 2.6%, and that of domestic sales – accounting for 34% of all sales – decreasing by 1.4%, according to the KSH.
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