ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY TENDENCY SURVEY COMPILED FROM 1977 ESTABLISHMENTS, THE PRODUCTION WEIGHTED CAPACITY UTILIZATION WAS 79.8 % IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1996. THE FIGURE WAS THE SAME IN THE SAME QUARTER OF PREVIOUS YEAR.
The reasons for inability to full capacity utilization are:
1995 4rd quarter 1996 4rd quarter
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Insufficient local demand % 49.4 % 44.8
Insufficient foreign demand % 15.8 % 16.2
Financial problems % 4.4 % 8.1
Insufficient local raw material supply % 3.8 % 3.2
Insufficient foreign raw material supply % 2.0 % 1.7
Problems with labour % 4.0 % 2.5
64.1 % of the establishments stated an increased while the 20.8 % stated a decrease of production in the fourth quarter of 1996. The figures in the same quarter of the previous year were 48.0 %, and 35.0 %, respectively.
44.6 % of the establishments expect an increase, while 28.4 % expect a decrease in production in the first quarter of 1997. In the same quarter of 1996, the expectations were 44.6 %, and 24.2 %, respectively.
As for domestic sales,
58.8 % of the establishments stated an increased while the 25.2 % stated a decrease of production in the fourt quarter of 1996. The figures in the same quarter of the previous year were 49.9 %, and 32.3 %, respectively.
39.6 % of the establishments expect an increase, while 32.0 % expect a decrease in production in the first quarter of 1997. The expectations in previous year were 41.2 %, and 29.4 %, respectively.