ORDERS received by the German machine tool industry in the first quarter of 2019 were 21 per cent down on the same period last year.Orders from Germany fell by 10 per cent whereas those from abroad were down by 27 per cent.”These dips are due not least to the”extremely buoyant first half of 2018,”said Dr.Wilfried Schafer,Executive Director of the VDW(Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken-German Machine Tool Builders’Association),Frankfurt am Main,commenting on the result.This base effect is expected to decrease significantly in the second half of 2019.”Nevertheless,the cooling of the global economy is now finally impacting on the German machine tool industry,too,”Schafer continued.Domestic business,long a counterweight to the decline in foreign orders,has lost a great deal of momentum.The only bright spot is the euro zone,which is now much more stable and saw only a 3 per cent downturn.However,it can only stabilise the loss from the non-euro zone to a marginal extent.
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机译：2019年第一季度德国机床行业收到的订单在去年同期下降了21％。来自德国的代表跌至10％，而来自国外的人数下降了27％。“这些逢低人数已到期 VDW的执行董事WilfriedSchafer博士博士说，尤其是2018年上半年的浮力，“verein deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken-德国机床制造商'交配），法兰克福评论结果。这是基础效应 预计在2019年下半年下半年明显减少。“尽管如此，全球经济的冷却终于对德国机床行业影响了，”Schafer持续。世纪的业务，延长了外国订单的下降，延续了对手， 失去了大量的势头。唯一的亮点是欧元区，现在越来越稳定，只有3％的衰退。然而，它只能将非欧元区的损失稳定到边际范围 。
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