Boeing is year-in and year-out America's leading exporter; aerospace is our top manufacturing export sector.
Despite its awesome reputation as an exporter, Japans economy is really two a very productive, but relatively small, world-class export sector, and the rest of the economy that is relatively inefficient.
Many detractors argued that if India was fully compliant by 2006, as required under WTO obligations, changes in the legislation and regulation of pharmaceuticals would make India a net importer, instead of a net exporter in the sector.
No wonder the chancellor today offered subsidies to exporters, the construction sector and white van lorry drivers – to add to the effective subsidies offered to bankers in the form of various lending schemes.
These IMF programmes to slim overgrown public sectors in problem countries are usually balanced by a devaluation of the currency to make private sector exporters more competitive and capable of winning extra work, and with a programme of suitable money relaxation to foster a general private sector-led recovery.
It was once Asia's biggest rice exporter, yet its agricultural sector remains woefully underproductive.
As trade minister she encouraged foreign investment in France and the opening of new markets for French products, particularly in the technology sector, helping exporters through the Cap Export mechanism, which she launched in September 2005.
In defiance of the US move, China, the world's largest steel producer, said it would push on with controversial tax rebates to steel exporters to support the sector's restructuring after a slowdown in demand at home.
The seminar is open to both aspiring exporters in the retail sector and those who have already started to fulfil international orders, offering a helping hand in planning expansion and reaching new markets.
The worst results in 10 years show that Brazil's industrial sector, leading exporters, foreign investment and local consumption have been hit hard.
