I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an export crop (= grown to be exported )
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Cocoa is the country's main export crop.
an export permit
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An export permit is required for the export of this timber.
an export/import ban
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The export ban on live cattle was brought in some years ago.
an import/export business
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Kingwell had an export business in New Zealand.
an import/export licence
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An export licence was issued in August last year.
export earnings (= money a company earns by exportings goods or services )
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Export earnings from oil bring valuable overseas currency into the country.
export goods
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The company exports Thai goods to Europe.
export sales (= sales of things to other countries )
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Export sales rose for the sixth consecutive month.
import/export quotas
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British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by higher tariffs and import quotas.
import/export restrictions (= trade restrictions )
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Import restrictions on manufactured goods have been lifted.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
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One day, this planet could become an agricultural export world.
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For 1995, agricultural exports rose 50 percent, while mining exports increased 53 percent.
invisible
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This has been undesirable, but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference.
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There were probably invisible exports too: exports of technical skill and artistry, exports of medicine and magic.
main
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Its main exports were salt and wine.
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It is the main beer export centre for the Group worldwide.
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Potash is one of the country's main exports and in 1979 work began on a £65 million extraction plant in Amman.
major
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But no-one is claiming this as a major export deal.
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A major new export industry has developed.
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Mr. Sainsbury All the major export credit agencies are reviewing cover for the Soviet Union.
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This proportion will change with gas becoming the major energy export in the early 1990s.
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For something over a century the major export item was beaver fur for felting and making into men's hats.
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Rotterdam has a major rôle in export refining and supply of products.
manufactured
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Small companies improved their share of manufactured exports to 15.3% in 1990 compared with 15.
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After two decades cotton came to account for a third of the increase in manufactured exports from 1784-6 to 1794-6.
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The success of our manufactured exports gives the lie to the Opposition's portrayal of manufacturing.
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As illustrated in figure 2A these top five markets take a 55% share of total manufactured exports .
total
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Oil exports totaled $ 8. 45 billion in 1995, representing 14 percent of total exports.
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I should mention that in relation to our total export turnover, sales through those agencies have not been significant.
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In 1992 total exports were valued at £1,991 million.
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Fig. 3 gives the top ten markets' percentage of total exports .
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This figure accounts for almost 5% of Grampian's total exports , and is significantly higher than the national figure of 2%.
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In the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century re-exporting still accounted for between a fifth and a quarter of total exports .
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By 1986, they accounted for one-third of total exports of manufactured goods, mainly in transport equipment, machinery and chemicals.
■ NOUN
business
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Unlike industry rivals such as Guinness, Highland has only a relatively small export business - about a third of its sales.
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The lack of organization among temporeros is integral to the country's busy fruit production and export business .
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She's after the export business .
control
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All export controls of armaments and all our customers are subject to the most rigorous control and scrutiny, as she knows.
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Ministers will make the concession during the consultation period that follows last week's publication of the arms exports controls bill.
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Since coming into office, the Clinton administration has removed export controls on most computers and telecommunications equipment.
crop
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White farms are key food producers and the source of tobacco, a crucial export crop .
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In 1989 transnationals controlled 70 per cent of international trade and 80 per cent of all the land growing export crops .
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Finally, the complementarity thesis predicts that services and subsidies for export crops will also benefit food crops.
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Rubber passed coconuts in importance as an export crop in the first decade of the twentieth century.
earnings
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Over 90 percent of export earnings comes from oil.
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Sugar was the third most important export after tobacco and tea, providing about 10 percent of export earnings .
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This increase in export earnings will stimulate the domestic economy.
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Though petroleum still makes up four-fifths of export earnings , he has made the country less dependent on oil.
growth
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Industrial production, investment and export growth have been worse than expected.
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Many multinationals told us they had switched supply accordingly, thus reducing the full extent of the export growth .
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Significant progress has been recorded only in respect of the budget deficit and manufactured export growth .
industry
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This can be very damaging for export industries and industries competing with imports.
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A major new export industry has developed.
licence
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The Cook, one of only two authenticated portraits of him, would not have gained an export licence .
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An export licence was issued in August last year, and this has now been extended until August 31, 1990.
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It lost all fruit along the way and by the time it received an export licence it was beyond drinking.
market
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The collapse of the export market for Yorkshire coal brought about the decline of the port.
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Cobra is on the hunt to fund an expansion in its 22 export markets .
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The healthy export market for four-wheel-drive vehicles contrasts sharply with the rest of the slump-hit industry.
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The range of articles produced on the home and export markets has grown considerably in recent years.
oil
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A high proportion of their oil export revenues has been invested in the world's main financial markets.
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The port closings halted crude oil exports from state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos during the weekend and on Monday.
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By 1959 four-fifths of wheat and nine-tenths of soya bean oil exports were paid for in this way.
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Exports westward accounted for 40 % of all Middle East oil exports .
performance
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Market Research and Barriers to Exporting Fig. 5 illustrates factors that have inhibited improved export performance amongst respondents.
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Section 2 will consider the methods that have been used to allocate scarce foreign exchange and their effects on export performance .
price
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Under a presidential decree of Aug. 6, oil and gas export prices were deregulated soas to bring them into line with world prices.
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The combination of low export prices and high oil import prices means Mr Kufuor's government will have little room to manoeuvre.
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But local producers have lesser reputations and command lower export prices .
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By 1955 export prices were down to world levels, a development which must have accelerated the scrapping of old plant.
quota
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But production quotas would be even more difficult to enforce than export quotas.
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An export quota for sawn timber has not yet been set.
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After their system of export quotas broke down in 1989, world coffee prices almost halved.
sale
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Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales .
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Because of low export sales , Jaguar is to make a further 700 redundancies.
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Indications are that the matter under investigation may be linked to the way in which these merchants book export sales .
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In export sales , Collins led with 1,609,788 units, or 20.75% of the market.
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Total domestic and export sales of all Vauxhall vehicles last year rose 10.3 percent to 402,617.
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Malt export sales for delivery over the next twelve months have gone exceptionally well.
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During that period, he also worked on export sales .
sector
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The export sector was freed before the import Sector.
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The primary industries are fishing and timber, important export sectors that nevertheless return little to the local economy.
subsidy
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In order to compensate firms for the loss of their retention rights, the federal government set up a scheme of export subsidies .
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Changes in tariffs and export subsidies might be used. 3.
trade
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This kept alive the nineteenth-century export trade in cadets of major ruling houses.
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Every na-tion has lost its export trade .
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It hopes for a significant export trade in this latest answer to civil disorder.
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News reports usually center on export trade to these countries.
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The move to the country outside had begun, and so had Aarau's export trade , at that time mostly textiles.
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Unemployment, reacting to the world slump and concentrated in the export trades , had risen steadily throughout 1930.
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Most of them were from the barbaric tribes nearer the frozen Hub, which had a sort of export trade in heroes.
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Its encouragement of textile production for its export trade helped the imperial revenue.
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ban
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More than 90 countries drafted a treaty in September that would ban export and use of anti-personnel mines.
boost
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In an attempt to boost exports , the government increased incentives to companies setting up in export processing zones.
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That will lead them to seek weaker currencies to boost their exports , traders said.
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A large real depreciation of the peso has also helped, boosting exports in 1995 by over 30 percent in dollar terms.
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Do you have sufficient enterprises which are competitive on a world scale to boost your exports in this way?
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More food was to be imported and there would be continuing efforts to boost exports .
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The dogma of parity ruled out devaluation to boost exports .
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Its training programme is boosted by a software export policy introduced by the government last year.
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A$235 million would also go on measures to boost exports .
grow
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The farmers who are successful are those with medium-sized farms, who are growing for export .
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More and more land was needed to grow crops for export and in some cases for the domestic market.
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In 1989 transnationals controlled 70 per cent of international trade and 80 per cent of all the land growing export crops.
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Unsuitable large-scale farming is also being practised in some areas such as the Praslin watershed where bananas are grown for export .
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We are growing crops for export and we are getting foreign exchange.
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A large part of the cultivated land is used to grow export crops.
increase
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Foreign investment, Scott claims, may reduce food insecurity in a variety of ways, for example by increasing export diversification.
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Their first step, naturally, was to increase exports .
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Other countries use it to increase their exports .
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As well as increasing export earnings they also add to the pipeline network supplying the home market.
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As a result, it decided to increase its exports of steel.
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They blamed the job losses on automation of the timber industry and increasing exports of raw, unprocessed logs.
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The end of the Gulf war has prompted Rover Group to increase exports of its cars.
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A marginal saving in costs for Project, which is looking to increase its exports .
reduce
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Countries with lower inflation rates resisted revaluation as this would reduce export profitability.
rise
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Unemployment, reacting to the world slump and concentrated in the export trades, had risen steadily throughout 1930.
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Its exports rose by 24% in 1988, accounting for a third of the increase in world trade.
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In the third quarter of this year, our exports rose by 1 percent.
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For 1995, agricultural exports rose 50 percent, while mining exports increased 53 percent.
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However, the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s.
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For 1995, those type of imports fell 35 percent, with those associated with export production rising 33 percent.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
invisible earnings/exports/trade etc
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Moreover, the major source of under-recording on the balance of payments up to 1949 was invisible trade.
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On this basis, Britain was the world's biggest generator of invisible earnings, and has probably remained so this year.
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Such earnings are little appreciated outside the specialist areas of business such as finance and insurance which directly contribute to invisible earnings.
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There were probably invisible exports too: exports of technical skill and artistry, exports of medicine and magic.
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This has been undesirable, but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference.
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Trade gap narrows despite cut in invisible earnings.
market-led/export-led etc
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It is therefore more than ever necessary that the recovery should be export-led rather than led by domestic consumption.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An international agreement restricts the export of missiles.
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Britain's total exports to the other EU member states now exceed imports.
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Saudi Arabia is one of the world's leading exporters of oil.
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The country's main export is coal.
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The value of China's exports to the US rose by over 50% last year.
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Wheat is one of our country's chief exports.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again, these can be used to assess potential export demand or continuity of import supplies.
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It hopes for a significant export trade in this latest answer to civil disorder.
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It is trading ahead of this time last year, when sales were hit by the Gulf war, but exports are slowing.
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It was in this context of increased regulation and hazard export that Raybestos Manhattan came to Ireland.
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The directive also applies to objects not returned at the end of a lawful temporary export .
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Yet the partners poured money into modernization, believing exports would give Quaker a profitable future.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
company
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We have many companies exporting high quality products to markets throughout the world.
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The company also exports programs to owners of computers in the United States.
country
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In all but the smallest countries export success, at least in manufactures, depends largely on a solid domestic market.
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Individuals in most countries know that exporting is important, and that export success impacts at all levels of society.
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Poor countries exporting to the industrialised world face tariffs four times as high as those facing rich countries.
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These seem amazing facts in a country which daydreams about exporting its democracy.
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At these allocations the home country exports manufactures and imports food.
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Less determined countries export their waste and thus acquire an undeserved reputation for being green.
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In this case the home country exports good 1, just as in the partial equilibrium model discussed in the previous section.
goods
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Briefly, they exported manufactured goods and capital, and they imported raw materials.
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Foreign-funded enterprises exported goods worth $ 665 million, up 33 percent over 1994, the report said.
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From Sept. 15 foreigners were forbidden to export scarce consumer goods , unless purchased for hard currency.
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A nation should restrict its foreign trade so that it exported more finished goods than it imported.
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The South exported textiles and electronic goods in return for zinc and semi-finished products from the North.
output
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Typically, firms have been required to export all their output to attract the full set of incentives.
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However, we now make a distinction between output delivered to the domestic market and exported output.
product
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We have many companies exporting high quality products to markets throughout the world.
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About 40 % of the foodequipment business is international, but it consists chiefly of exporting products to distributors and licensees abroad.
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Rather than focus on big leveraged buyouts, Ripplewood will primarily look at medium-size businesses with potential to export their products .
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They moved, in short, from exporting products to exporting jobs.
■ VERB
import
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There is a tremendous deficit between what we import and what we export .
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We could import and export anything.
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It will also import and export a good range of standard formats.
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There is one way, and only one way, in which a country can import more than it exports .
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Every civilization imports and exports aspects of its culture.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
invisible earnings/exports/trade etc
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Moreover, the major source of under-recording on the balance of payments up to 1949 was invisible trade.
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On this basis, Britain was the world's biggest generator of invisible earnings, and has probably remained so this year.
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Such earnings are little appreciated outside the specialist areas of business such as finance and insurance which directly contribute to invisible earnings.
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There were probably invisible exports too: exports of technical skill and artistry, exports of medicine and magic.
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This has been undesirable, but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference.
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Trade gap narrows despite cut in invisible earnings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ancient artefacts cannot be exported.
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In 1986 they exported 210,000 cases of wine to the UK.
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Japanese televisions and hi-fi systems are exported all over the world.
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The influence of African music has been exported to many parts of the western world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At these allocations the home country exports manufactures and imports food.
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Foreign-funded enterprises exported goods worth $ 665 million, up 33 percent over 1994, the report said.
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She felt very strongly about animals being exported live to the continent for slaughter, horses or cattle.
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They pay for the weapons they carry, and for the guns he exports to arm the rebels destabilising his neighbours.