Like other economies in the region, Vietnam is also a big exporter, the world's second-largest exporter of rice and coffee.
Because Brazil is the top exporter of world class football talent to the high paying European leagues its players have become bigger targets of reputation damaging trash talk by FIFA stars.
But Japan still has ¥1,500 trillion $16.3 trillionn) of savings, its exporters are world-class, and many of its citizens dress, shop and eat lavishly.
In the fourth quarter 2006 one in six importer-exporter pairs world-wide was served by a single direct liner "service", meaning that only one ship was operating on that route.
The United States consumes about 60% of oil exports from Venezuela, the fifth-biggest exporter in the world.
"Canada is now the fifth-largest producer of oil in the world... and it is the fourth largest exporter in the world.
Bunge Ltd., the largest soybean exporter in the world, raised $282 million in an initial public offering, at the low end of its expectations.
China, the largest exporter in the world, reported this week that its December exports of $105.7 billion were down 3percentt from the same month in 2007, after a 2percentt decline in November.
According to World Trade Organization (WTO) international trade statistics, Taiwan is the 20th largest exporter in the world (cited in 2013 International Trade Development in Taiwan, Bureau of Foreign Trade, 2013, p.4).
The Scottish Fisherman's Federation recently argued that Brexit could help the UK's fishing industry to become a world-leading seafood exporter like Norway, the world's leading producer of salmon and the second largest seafood exporter.
