November's manufacturing shipments continue to reflect the slow recovery in manufacturing output and a gradual improvement in capacity utilisation. While sales volumes have gone sideways over the last few months, this is in part because of temporary weakness in auto production. In 2011, the anticipated pick-up in US economic growth should help to lift growth in sales and exports.
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