He says the EU's proposal will stand only if the Americans, Australians and Canadians cut back on their own equivalents of export subsidies.In this section The bonds from Brazil Frothy From Cancún to can-do Rainy day Rocking the boat Now for the hard part The stuff of life ReprintsStill, his offer has some merit.
Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Economics has studied unemployment in former industrial areas and says every city needs the equivalent of an export sector – something to bring money from outside the area, whether it's a hospital, a university, or a successful business sector.
They import a total of $9 billion worth of products from the United States every year, the rough equivalent of American exports to Russia, India and Indonesia combined.
More than half a million Brazilians visit Florida each year, and the way the balance of tourism trade is calculated, that business is the equivalent of American exports, which the administration has been promising to increase.
As a group, they sent $1.2 billion back home to family members last year, equivalent to more than 10percentt of export earnings, according to official news reports.
By balancing trade we guarantee that any inflow of goods is matched by an equivalent export of goods made here in the United States.
The ROC system gives you the equivalent of about 27p-28p pexportedted unit, but the FIT could well be higher than that.
Of course, this would be the economic equivalent of suicide terrorism: oil exports provide more than 80percentt of Iranian government revenues, and a major cutback would wreck Iran's economy.
The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property concluded in May that technology theft amounted to a loss of more than $300 billion a year, the equivalent of total annual United States exports to Asia.
Mr. Andersen is the managing director of one of the new enterprises, Greenland Water Production, which has an ambitious goal of bottling near here as much as 500 million liters of water a year, or 132 million gallons, the equivalent of Canada's water exports to the United States last year.
