Sales appear to have declined 7 percent in the first quarter, while North American production by domestic and foreign manufacturers has plunged 18 percent.

Industrial production and orders for manufactured goods plunged last month in Germany, the biggest European economy.

The production of corn, the country's staple food, plunged by nearly 70 percent this year, the United Nations says.

And production has plunged by more than 50 percent as the company struggles to compete in a depressed market glutted with steel.

In 1998, the Russian financial crisis left Karachaganak's customers insolvent and production plunged.

Many of the projects he had begun were later abandoned by the later military governors, and agricultural production plunged.

American dependence on imported oil jumped by 9.2 percent as domestic production plunged to the lowest level in 35 years.

Industrial production is plunging, and layoffs are soaring.

The production of new cars plunged 19 percent in June, according to the German carmakers' association, largely because of the strikes.

However, his production this year plunged.