There were deep worries that export controls might harm local manufacturers against foreign competitors, eventually forcing the NSA to become dependent on foreign manufacturers for computing power as American companies declined.
Numbers on exports and imports dance all over the lot, but the deep basic is exports rise modestly and imports overwhelm us.
And one other thing: Japanese monetary policy was still up against the zero lower bound in 2007, leaving it no room to counter the Great Recession, and hence leaving Japan open to a deep slump when exports plunged.
Chinese leaders are alarmed by the prospect of a deep recession in leading export markets at a time when their own economy, after a long streak of double-digit growth, is slowing.
The government, with deep pockets from the export of oil and gas, quickly said it would curb price rises, and since then the rioting has tapered off.
That is not a bad legacy for the NHS, nearly six decades after its birth.Dig deeper: Britain's healthy export: selling the NHS abroad (August 2013) A profile of Jeremy Hunt, the British health secretary (January 2014) How open data could save the NHS money (December 2012).
These closely linked carbon pools undergo complex transformations, many of which are biologically mediated, with a portion of this recently fixed carbon escaping from surface waters and being exported to deep water and underlying sediments via the so-called "biological pump" [23, 35].
As VICE previously reported, North Korea has exported workers deep within Siberia to toil in exchange for much-needed foreign currency.
Germany's export addiction has deep roots.
One reason for such differences is that there are non-iron limiting factors such as silicate and light, and carbon export to the deep ocean can only occur during the growing season (Aumont and Bopp [2006]).
