THE bottom fell off the factory floors across Asia in the first quarter when customers in the United States and Europe halted purchases and cleared their excess inventories.
That resulted in a sharp fall in manufacturing activity and exports for Asian countries, and contraction of sales for manufacturing companies, many of which went into the red.
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