Orders for chemicals, paper and tobacco products also declined during the month.
Among those exports are airplane parts and airplane maintenance diagnostic equipment, chemicals, paper packaging, electronics and computers.
Textile mills dominate, although there also are plants manufacturing chemicals, paper, plastic film, machinery, tires, electronics, and aircraft.
Manufactures include chemicals, paper goods, automobiles, railroad cars, petroleum and soap products, fabricated steel, and dairy and agricultural commodities.
Tourism and the military are major components of the economy; health care, high-technology industries, and manufacturing (fibres, chemicals, paper products, and building materials) are also important.
Wholesale prices for fireworks are up 30percentthis yearar, he said, because of the limited supply, as well as higher shipping costs and increased prices for chemicals, paper and labor.
It was a risky move, but at the time Enron claimed that it was a natural extension of its core business, which was to create markets like the ones it had started for trading natural gas and energy and had already expanded into areas like chemicals, paper and water.
Profile Idaho's major industries include food processing, lumber/wood products, chemicals, paper, mining and tourism.
The company operates through six segments: Chemicals, Paper, Cement, Building Materials, Distribution and Investment.
"A recovery will bode well for such cyclicals as chemicals, paper and packaging and automobile suppliers," Taylor says.
