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I encounter these sentences commonly, and I have a fairly well-developed sense that most casual readers treat this as two scoops of buzzword-compatible word cloud, not even bothering to mentally construct a valid parse tree.

Such goods may be sold to other manufacturers for the production of other more complex products (such as aircraft, household appliances, furniture, sports equipment or automobiles), or distributed via the tertiary industry to end users and consumers (usually through wholesalers, who in turn sell to retailers, who then sell them to individual customers).

— MaxEnt 00:08, 14 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Since 2014 China, not the United States, has had the largest manufacturing production. However, the article listed the United States above China in the top five manufacturing countries. I have corrected the error. 2A02:C7E:1CC3:8A00:50D4:6471:B243:9DE5 ( talk) 19:56, 14 October 2021 (UTC) The five "Largest Manufacturers" also lists Germany above Japan - in reality Japan has larger manufacturing output than Germany. Overall the section, which says it is from a study by Deloittes, is just a mess - the whole section should be deleted. Chinese manufacturing is not smaller than the United States and Japanese manufacturing production is not smaller than that of Germany - and the United States and Germany are certainly not "more competitive" than China and Japan. The whole section is wildly misleading for general readers. 2A02:C7E:1CC3:8A00:50D4:6471:B243:9DE5 ( talk) 20:04, 14 October 2021 (UTC) reply

The manufacturing output figures given for the United States are from 2019 - the figures for 2020 must be out by now. And the figures for Japan are from 2018 - which is absurd given it is now 2022. 2A02:C7E:1CA8:CE00:1896:E118:CC65:53AD ( talk) 20:53, 12 February 2022 (UTC) reply

Can we add the EU as a whole to the list for comparison? Newme ( talk) 07:35, 29 January 2024 (UTC) reply