The development of supply chains in the region will have to overcome the extra-regional trade biases that these figures suggest. As Table A 11.1 indicates, the importance of manufacturing (in total output) and of high technology exports (as a proportion of total exports) vary much more widely across East Asian nations than across South Asian nations. In fact, even relatively industrialised India exports a lower proportion of high-technology goods than unindustrialized Mongolia. However, this may be balanced by the fact that the export of manufactured goods is already dominant for all but two of the South Asian countries.