For the first two months of 1988, foreign orders were up by 78.9 percent, to $70.65 million.
In the first nine months of the year, foreign orders were down 27.7 percent.
If they are seen as not being good value, foreign orders may go elsewhere and jobs could be lost here.
For the first four months of the year, foreign orders rose 85.6 percent, to $162.6 million.
Both methods allow for a foreign order to be registered in Connecticut.
General Dynamics is seeking to keep the production line going with foreign orders.
For the first nine months of 1988, foreign orders were nearly 95 percent higher than in the comparable period last year.
Last month, total foreign orders dropped 8.7 percent, to $34.3 million, compared with June's.
That drop came despite a more than 50 percent increase in foreign orders for such tools.
That is up 11.4 percent from the $180.4 million in foreign orders in the similar period last year.
If completed, the deal would be among Ford's largest export orders ever.
The increase was driven by domestic demand, as growth of new export orders slowed to just above the 50 level.
By the end of the year we had received our first export orders.
The export orders are the biggest in both companies' histories.
Also, this was the largest single export order in German history.
But growth in new orders was strong, thanks to a high level of export orders.
This success led to international recognition and a significant increase in export orders.
A policy which had earned the company a healthy quantity of export orders.
The export order was completed between October 1942 and March 1943.
Six percent reported lower export orders, an increase from 4 percent in August.