With the exception of Qatar, this led to an increase in the share of oil exports in total 2004 exports.

Ten most dynamic commodities in world exports (ranked by growth in export value), 1985 2002.

The US current account deficit has been narrowing in recent quarters, thanks to export growth.

Export growth is down sharply, turning negative vis à vis the eurozone s periphery.

As a result of the global financial crisis, China s export growth in 2009 dropped by 34 compared to 2008.

Import growth, a sign of future exports, has also fallen.

But in the case of EU Mexico trade liberalization, the growth of imports from the EU has exceeded the growth of exports to Europe, resulting in a widening Mexican trade deficit with the EU.

To escape the crisis, Germany used rapid export growth especially to meet voracious Chinese demand.

American exports to India have grown faster in the last five years than those to any other country.

Countries that allowed their currencies to appreciate relative to the dollar will experience a sharp slowdown in export growth.

The ESCAP region is a major contributor to world trade growth, with both exports and imports growing faster than world exports and imports and with China becoming the world's third largest trading nation.

Developing countries' exports grew faster than total world exports, which expanded by 20 per cent.

They may be applied to signal concern over import surges and to persuade trading partners to reduce export growth.

Higher prices for commodity exports, including oil in the case of Papua New Guinea, and increased tourism supported positive growth.

Today, domestic investment has plummeted, exports are languishing, and GDP growth is down to around 4.5 per year.

That is consistent with the Five Year Plan s goal of basing GDP growth more on domestic demand and less on exports.

Without that exchange rate adjustment, faster export growth would expose the Chinese economy to the risk of overheating.

Meanwhile, the faltering European economy and slowing GDP growth in China and elsewhere are impeding export demand.

Lack of export growth thus has made the recession in Greece much longer and deeper than it would have been otherwise. If Greek exports had increased at the same rate as those of Portugal (or Spain), the recession would have ended by now.

Quite the contrary, having managed to develop a diversified economy and sustained export growth free of the Dutch disease , Armenia has for the past five years registered steady double digit economic growth.

But if exports continue to grow in the absence of consumption led import growth, distortions occur and the trade surplus and foreign reserves increase.

But, as Chinese growth has decelerated owing partly to decreased exports to Europe the German GDP forecast has been halved.

This increases developing countries exports and reduces their import demand (or increases it at a lower rate than export growth).

And yet reliance on external demand remains fundamentally unchanged, even as the contribution of net exports to GDP growth has turned negative.

The slowdown of global growth and actual double dip recession risks in the US and Japan will invariably impede export growth, even in Germany.

With roughly 40 of that increase attributable to exports, that means the remainder of the economy has grown at an anemic 1.4 pace.

But now growth rates for Chinese exports and related indices in manufacturing have fallen, largely owing to weak external demand, especially in Europe.

Mounting regional disparities, as well as the widening urban rural divide, impede household consumption growth, increasing the economy s dependence on exports and foreign investment.

Open trade could not be the sole objective of the negotiations, as was demonstrated by the relationship between export growth and income growth in many countries.

As China s economy grows relative to the economies of its trading partners, the efficacy of its export led growth model must inevitably fade. As a corollary, the returns on massive infrastructure investment, much of which is directed toward supporting export growth, must also fade.

Moreover, such a slowdown would devastate the developing world, as weaker performance in the advanced economies reduces the growth of export markets.

By contrast, Greece is still having problems fulfilling the goals of its adjustment program and is engaged in seemingly endless negotiations over yet another multilateral financing package. The problem can be summed up in one word exports (or, rather, lack of export growth).

Finally, export growth slowed, not primarily because Indian goods suddenly became uncompetitive, but because growth in the country s traditional export markets decelerated.

This reflects the fact that despite a considerable reduction of tariffs and quotas the growth of exports from developing to developed countries has been limited.

And lagging household income clearly contributes to China s trade surplus, because low domestic consumption tends to keep exports higher than imports.

An important victim will be Japan, where anemic real income growth is depressing domestic demand and exports to China sustain what little growth there is.

So long as external demand holds up and recent growth numbers from China and the US are positive in this regard Europe s exports should continue to perform well.

As a result, from 1997 to 2007, Swedish exports nearly doubled and industrial production grew by 36 , with manufacturing companies achieving record high productivity growth.

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Japan accounts for only 5 of America s exports and 8 of China s.

Cutting growth rates by 40 70 is surely a recipe for stagnant societies with insufficient growth to satisfy private wants and public needs. Moreover, such a slowdown would devastate the developing world, as weaker performance in the advanced economies reduces the growth of export markets.

Back then, Chinese exports went from boom to bust in just seven months from 26 annual growth in July 2008 to a 27 decline in February 2009.

In 2010, China s imports ranked second in the world, and are expected to grow at an average annual rate of 27 in 2011 2015, outpacing export growth by five percentage points.