Charif Souki, Cheniere's chief executive, predicted that by 2018, the country would manage to export only one billion to two billion cubic feet of gas a day, or roughly 2 percent of current domestic consumption.
It would place the UK in the same position as the US is currently in, along with Indian, China and Japan, all of which manage to export to the EU relatively easily.
In the days after the earthquake, the value of Japan's currency experienced a historic rise, which threatened to make the products the country did manage to export less attractive to foreign buyers.
McDonald's and other fast food eateries manage to export that little bit of America to countries around the world thanks to standardized processes and specially delivered ingredients, Princeton economist Orley Ashenfelter explained in a recent paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Zambia set up a stabilisation scheme to manage mineral exports; but as prices soared in the 1970s, the government dropped it and years of pain followed when prices fell again.
Pakistan is now likely to fail to meet its mango export target of 150,000 tons by September, instead managing to export only 100,000 tons.
Through the export of BSE-infected cattle or contaminated feed, Britain managed to export mad cow disease to most of continental Europe, including France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and Denmark.
White ignorance is the problem, and we white folks have now managed to export that problem all over the world".
In the past decade, the British have even managed to export their own corrosive and comically short-sighted form of Euroscepticism.
The business managed to export some of its systems but the expense of shipping so much heavy metal around the globe was prohibitive.
