He welcomed its commitments to reduce barriers to foreign investment in services, high-tech goods, energy saving products and high-end manufacturing.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

So we know American manufacturing can succeed in this country -- high-tech manufacturing, advanced manufacturing -- but we've got to make sure we've got a tax code that encourages it.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

So although the merger of EADS and BAE collapsed because the German government was not prepared to let go of the enlarged business, the fact that Germany is not prepared to give EADS its commercial freedom is of relevance to the UK's manufacturing future - at a time when Britain would be seen to have far too few hi-tech manufacturing jobs.

BBC: How Germany killed the merger of BAE and EADS

Or maybe it's because they provide lots of symbolically significant, high-tech manufacturing jobs, in marginal constituencies.

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