France’s manufacturing output in February this year decreased by 0.6 percent month on month, after dropping by 0.7 percent in January this year, according to the statistics released by France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). In the December-February quarter, France’s manufacturing output increased by 1.1 percent year on year and by 0.2 percent quarter on quarter.
In February, France’s production in manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment, remained unchanged month on month, after falling by 0.3 percent in the previous month.
On the other hand, in February production of France’s motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers industry fell by 1.6 percent on month-on-month basis after dropping by 5.9 percent on month-on-month basis in the previous month, while the output of the domestic construction industry decreased by 1.3 percent month on month in the given month after going down by 1.4 percent in January compared to December. In the December-February quarter, output of the domestic construction industry advanced by 0.1 percent compared to the previous quarter.