ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Electronics industry

... important export earner. Milk products go to the UK and other EC countries. In 1986 the finance sector overtook tourism as the main contributor to GDP, accounting for 40% of the island's output. In recent years the government has encouraged light industry to locate in Jersey, with the result that an electronics industry has developed alongside the traditional manufacturing of knitwear. All raw material and energy requirements are imported, as well as a large share of Jersey's ...

— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.