[snopercod]

There is an option you didn't consider: Lower the capacity of industry.

Coats-America, the last factory in my County in Western North Carolina is now boxing up all their machines and sending them to Mexico. The other two plants closed down earlier this year.

If enough businesspeople got rid of their means of production, it would help the "capacity-factor" statistic, no?

[sarcasm]

Coats-America, the last factory in my County in Western North Carolina is now boxing up all their machines and sending them to Mexico

Do they count as exports?