On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:35:01 +0000, Jonathan Ball wrote:

Calif Bill wrote:

Former Swiss customer of mine was one of the largest newspaper
typesetting equipment suppliers in Europe.

That's nice.

Look at the numbers: services accounts for about double the percentage of
"industry" in the Swiss economy, and a substantial part of "industry" is
service anyway.

I would suggest that does make them a manufacturing economy. That
breakdown is equivalent to Germany's, and only slightly less than Japan's.
We on the other hand are a service economy.

Germany:
industry 33.4%, agriculture 2.8%, services 63.8% (1999)

Japan:
agricultu 1.4% industry: 30.9% services: 67.7% (2001 est.)

USA:
agricultu 2% industry: 18% services: 80% (2002)

Numbers taken from CIA Factbook:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/