Italians take the bronze.

Italian manufacturers are gathering profits, despite a decline in the global machine tool industry.

If the global machine tool industry gave on the outside awards in Olympic fashion, Italy would earn the and zinc with its newly acquired third-place ranking in world output export, and consumption.

According to ISTAT, Italy's management statistics office, Gross Domestic returns in that country increased by the agency of 1.4% in 1999, which was a 01% decrease in growing from 1998. But in the extremity of 1999, the GDP grew 04% in single quarter, which Italians interpreted as a profitable indicator of "less