EC INDUSTRY OUTPUT GROWTH SLOWS IN 1986

  European Community industrial output
  increased by an average of around two pct last year, compared
  with 3.3 pct growth recorded in 1985 against a year earlier,
  the EC statistics office Eurostat said.
      Growth was highest in Portugal at five pct, while in Greece
  output contracted by 0.3 pct, Eurostat said in a statement.
      Eurostat noted output growth also fell in the U.S. And
  Japan. U.S. Production increased 1.1 pct after 2.0 pct in 1985,
  while in Japan output contracted by 0.5 pct after rising 4.5
  pct a year earlier.
      Eurostat said EC industrial production in December rose 3.1
  pct compared with 12 months earlier but added that after
  adjustment for seasonal factors, output growth had been clearly
  slowing down since the beginning of the summe
  

