DETROIT, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- More than 25 percent of manufacturing in the state of Michigan is dependent on export business, organizers of a conference in Detroit said.
The International Export Council Conference, an annual event sponsored by the Department of Commerce and scheduled to convene in both Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, this year, is "a real coup for our region," Terry Kalley, chairman of the Detroit Export Council, told The Detroit News in a story published Saturday.