It’s Not Just Autos: Shortage of Japanese Parts Puts U.S. Economy at Risk, Tonelson Says

By Stacy Curtin | Daily Ticker – Wed, Apr 6, 2011 8:54 AM EDT

The devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last month is slowly starting to have a bigger impact on U.S. manufacturing.
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The report — entitled A Supply-Chain Earthquake? American Industrial Dependence on Japanese Manufactures — cites these market-share figures for the sectors unrelated to electronics and automobiles that come from Japanese imports:

* Metal cutting machine tools = 21% of U.S. market-share comes from Japan
* Turbines for generating energy = 14.8%
* Metal-forming machine tools = 12.7%
* Plastic and rubber making machinery = 11.2%

Full article:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/not-just-autos-shortage-japanese-parts-puts-u-20110406-055420-571.html