"exporter" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun used to describe a person or company that ships goods to other countries for sale. For example: "The exporter used the most economical route to deliver the goods."
The fraud is thus picked up in exports (because the exporter is reclaiming the tax) but not in imports (because the importer does not account for the tax).
The UK had a fighting chance of becoming the world's major exporter of tidal and wave power equipment but, as with wind power two decades ago, we will lose out to countries with poorer natural resources but greater willingness to invest in hugely expensive R&D.
So what to make of the statement by Saudi Arabia's oil minister that the world's biggest oil exporter could stop using fossil fuels as soon as 2040 and become a "global power" in solar and wind energy?
Notably, many African countries were the most strongly supportive of an arms trade treaty while among the abstentions was Russia, the world's second biggest arms exporter after the US and a highly significant arms partner with much of Africa.
That could leave the US free to become a net exporter, to the tune of 4.7m bpd of oil and LNG.
Subsequently, India became the exporter of raw materials and foodstuffs – raw cotton and jute, coal, opium, rice, spice and tea – rather than manufactured goods.
As a capital goods exporter, Germany had been one of the prime beneficiaries of credit-driven demand in China but this is now also reversing: falling property prices and credit growth are bringing forward China's choice between a slowdown towards a more sustainable growth trajectory and a continued credit-fuelled but unsustainable expansion.
Northern Nigeria has some of the highest unemployment and school dropout rates in the world, despite the country being the eight largest oil exporter.
Saudi remains the world's biggest oil producer and exporter, and the country with the largest proven reserves.
The United States is the world's biggest exporter of wheat.
He bolstered his position as opposition foreign affairs spokesman with fiery performances in parliament, pressing prime minister John Howard and foreign minister Alexander Downer on their alleged roles in kickback scandals in which Australia's monopoly wheat exporter was found to have paid bribes to Saddam Hussein under the UN oil-for-food programme.
