About one in four dollars of metalworking machinery production, of which this region is a major contributor, was exported. Steel mill producers in Ohio - another of your revitalized industries - have more than doubled their export volumes since the mid-1980s.
In this context, some policy analysts argued that a step that the Fed should modify the language of the statement to communicate to investors that it anticipates keeping the target Federal Funds rate low for a longer period than what the markets were factoring it to be.