Chemicals, steel, aluminum, machinery and plastics account for most of the remaining industrial exports.
Russian industrial exports now total about $5 billion.
They talk now about the proper level of monetary expansion and how to revive flagging industrial exports.
Britain is certain to increase its volume of industrial exports to Iran much beyond 1987's $530 million.
By 1914 France's main industrial exports were textiles and iron ore.
Textiles are a leading industrial export of third world countries, since large quantities can be produced with labor that requires little training.
It makes up the difference with more traditional industrial exports to the United States, mainly cars and trucks.
Australia's dependence on agricultural and industrial exports meant it was one of the hardest-hit countries in the Western world.
Signs of slowing growth are already becoming apparent in Germany, where industrial exports have been the economic engine in the last 18 months.
Roughly 40 percent of American industrial exports fit into the category, and some 200,000 applications for individual export licenses must be processed each year.