"Softening in some categories of exports can already be observed".
All categories of exports from Canada declined, except for automotive products and consumer goods.
Strong growth is evident in a number of categories of exports, particularly of sophisticated, complicated manufactured goods.
So far, the Bush administration has limited its Chinese trade cases to fairly small categories of exports like brassieres, a few kinds of furniture and color television sets.
Germany is the largest market for almost all categories of exports, while Russia remains by far the most important source of energy imports, and Germany and Italy serve as the chief sources of foreign machinery and chemicals.
Greenaway et al. (1999) estimated growth for all exports and then for different categories of exports; they found exports of fuels, metals and textiles had more effect on growth than food or other primary products.
Their detailed analysis included 173 categories of imported products and 120 categories of exported products, while Rikkers et al. included fewer than 20 food categories and overlooked exports of value added ingredients.
Significantly, the ruling strengthens other European arguments against Chinese restrictions on another category of exports — rare earths, 17 minerals also used in the high-tech industry.
In this article, the impact of the commodity boom of the 2000s on Latin American and Caribbean economies is studied by analyzing four categories of commodity exports (agricultural raw materials, fuel, food, ore and minerals) as well as manufactured exports.
Well-designed vehicles and machinery, so coveted a Germany specialty that they can often fetch premium prices, were by far the biggest categories of European exports to the United States.
