English to German Social Sciences Economics

There had been a scare earlier that US was losing her competitiveness in manufactures, with panic over the fact that the share of manufactures in national value added and in employment had declined. But, as many economists noted at the time, this had been happening almost everywhere: services were gaining in share and manufacturing was going the way of agriculture in an earlier age. *So, when some services which had been nontradeable became tradeable, as with call-answer services and the reading of x-ray charts by radiologists which were sent out digitally and were read in Bangalore instead of in Boston, panic became general*.
Ich bin nicht sicher, was mit genau mit dem Satz in Sternchen gemeint ist. Kann mir jemand helfen? Vielen Dank im Voraus!