Exports from the start of February through the end of August totaled about 23,000 tons, compared with export quotas this year of 30,300 tons.
It expects the domestic market (including call centres and other kinds of "business-process outsourcing") to expand by 15-18% in the year to March 2010, compared with export growth of just 4-7%.One big domestic buyer is the Indian government.
From January to November, the United States shipped some 143,900 metric tons of beef valued at $969.8 million to Japan, compared with exports of 375,455 metric tons with a value of $1.4 billion in 2003, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
Foreign direct investment, or F.D.I., is an important gauge of the health of the external economy, toward which China's vast factory sector is oriented, but it is a small contributor to overall capital flows compared with exports, which were worth about $2 trillion in 2012.
Foreign investment is an important gauge of the health of the global economy and of demand for the output of China's huge manufacturing sector — though such investment is a small contributor to China's overall capital flows when compared with exports, which were worth about $2 trillion in 2012.
Imports are still relatively high compared with exports.
In 1990-1994, compared with 1985-1989, exporevenuesues fell for 54.5percentt of products by value, including the traditional exports, probably as a consequence of the price decline (Table 5), but the trend reversed for almost all products in 1995-1999 in their volume and price movements.
Compared with September last year, export prices were up 5.0 percent.
The Fair Trade Commission, a watchdog, is investigating a complaint from a parliamentarian that Hyundai is selling its new Genesis luxury saloon at a 13m-won markup at home compared with some export markets.In 2013 Consumers Korea, a lobby group, surveyed how much 60 products cost in each of 15 rich countries.
Reuters, however, said February exports were flat compared with January exports.
The United States has lost an estimated cumulative $9.2 billion in exports to Korea under the FTA's first two years, compared with the exports that would have been achieved at the pre-FTA level.
