France’s manufacturing output in March this year decreased by 0.3 percent month on month, after rising by one percent in February this year, according to the statistics released by France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). In the January-March quarter, France’s manufacturing output increased by 0.9 percent year on year and decreased by 0.9 percent quarter on quarter.
In March, France’s production in manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment, advanced by 0.3 percent month on month, after remaining unchanged in the previous month.
On the other hand, in March production of France’s motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers industry grew by one percent on month-on-month basis after dropping by 1.2 percent on month-on-month basis in the previous month, while the output of the domestic construction industry decreased by 0.2 percent month on month in the given month after going down by 1.3 percent in February compared to January. In the January-March quarter, output of the domestic construction industry decreased by 1.3 percent compared to the previous quarter.
