Sentence examples for export addiction from inspiring English sources

Germany's export addiction has deep roots.

Overcoming export addiction has become a sort of mantra among Asian policy makers, especially those chafing at the political pressure from their biggest customer, the United States.

The question now, with its main customers pulling back, is whether Germany can kick its export addiction and encourage more demand at home.A rebalancing of world demand requires high-savers, such as China and Germany, to spend more and run smaller trade surpluses so that the trade deficits of countries such as America and Spain can narrow as savings are rebuilt.

How China fares in its quest to quit its addiction to exports is critical for the region, given that it is now overtaking Japan as having the world's second largest economy, after that of the United States.

They argue that, just as a cheap yuan has recently distorted China's economy, and a cheap yen distorted Japan's in the early 1980s, so the rest of Asia is cursed by its addiction to export-led growth.

Ending the nation's addiction to exports is easier said than done.

We have exported our carbon dioxide addiction all around the world.

Consider this faux article from June 2005 about America's addiction to Chinese exports: FENGHUA, China — Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo Plastic Works Ltd., a plastics factory that manufactures lightweight household items for Western markets, expressed his disbelief Monday over the "sheer amount of [garbage] Americans will buy.

Neither had a strong incentive to break an addiction: China to strong export growth and financial stability; the United States to cheap imports and low-cost foreign loans.

Until America has done more to kick its addiction to foreign oil, any big push to export hydrocarbons looks plain loopy.

Truth is, to end our oil addiction in the short term, we must end exports of crude extracted from public lands, do away with federal subsidies and limit excessive speculation by traders.