The manufacturing industry has always been the driver of economic growth and structural changes. This sector has an important role to play in order to create productive jobs and sustainable economic growth. The demand for the products of the processing sector grows and stimulates the creation of jobs and innovations, with the spillover effects of the processing sector being stronger than in other sectors. If the production of the manufacturing industry falls, it can have a very bad effect on the whole economy, because new jobs in the manufacturing sector create from 0.5 to 2 jobs in other sectors of the economy, the bad impact on the economy can be manifested when the total added value, in research and development activities, employment, innovation and export. The fact that the processing sector is very important for economic growth is emphasized by the "World Economic Forum", pointing out that even more than 70% of the variations in income between 128 countries can be attributed to differences in the export results of the processing sector. The probability of a drop in export revenues is lower for companies that solve liquidity problems with capital financing, delay payments to suppliers and workers, and with the help of state subsidies. Firms that have a higher level of resilience to external shocks are less likely to experience a decline in export revenue. The introduction or strengthening of online sales has a negative impact on export revenues. It has been shown that problems caused by liquidity are the most significant challenges in the pandemic for domestic companies in the processing industry and that companies that managed to find a way to solve such problems also managed to reduce the likelihood of a drop in export revenues. Companies that have secured larger reserves of funds to survive in the event of sales cessation are among those that have a very low probability of a drop in export revenues. It can be concluded that companies in the Croatian manufacturing industry are very exposed to external disturbances and immediately at the beginning of the pandemic there were problems with liquidity. With the introduction of online sales, the probability of a drop in export revenues increased, and this proved that it is a compensation measure with which the drop in the international market is tried to be reduced by a new way of communicating with customers on the domestic market.