The United States is particularly strong in machinery, chemicals and transportation equipment, which together make up nearly half of the exports.
The People's Republic of China also illustrates the conflict between revolutionary suspicion of bureaucracy and the need to construct strong administrative machinery in order to attain revolutionary goals.
He has raised the most money, built the strongest campaign machinery and, as a relative moderate, is best placed to beat Mr Obama a point his supporters in Iowa made incessantly.
"Lots of food, strong husky Americans, machinery, show it as big and powerful, good highways, spaciousness.
The Commerce Department said that orders for durable goods -- manufactured items intended to last three years or more -- rose a higher-than-expected 2.8percentt in October, helped by strong demand for machinery and a 65.2percentt surge for communications equipment.
The fear is that China's strong imports of machinery, oil and ores in the early months of this year may simply have gone into one end of a production pipeline, out of which are now emerging excessive volumes of steel and heavy-industrial products that it cannot sell at home.
As we said in the overview, this remains one of the swankiest interiors ever devised, with metal used copiously to enhance a strong feeling of machinery.
Germany is the strongest supplier of machinery and transport equipment, other manufactured goods, and raw materials to the other countries in the EU.
It also exports heavy machinery and strong beer -- products linked to manliness.
