Sentence examples for minus imports from inspiring English sources

Then, too, GDP counts net exports—exports minus imports—and the US, being a net importer, gets dinged on this most every quarter.

GDP is the sum of consumption, investment and the trade balance (exports minus imports).

By contrast, the contribution from abroad (exports minus imports) put a brake on GDP growth.

The increase in net exports (exports minus imports) has never been the main source of China's growth.

Yet in 2008 the fall in net exports (exports minus imports) accounted for less than half of its slowdown.

International trade (exports minus imports) contributed a little less than nothing to the country's growth in the first half of this year.

The merchandise trade surplus, the measure of all goods exported minus those imported, increased to 1.144 trillion yen $10.79 billionn), the Ministry of Finance said.

The model was fitted using each index of local annual consumption of total asbestos (i.e., total import, total import minus reexport, or total import minus export and reexport); the model fits were very similar, and we used total imports as the exposure measure for future predictions.

After two months of testing, the Government agency reported that nonglossy vinyl mini-blinds imported from China, Taiwan, Mexico and Indonesia, and bought for $5 to $10 a window, would eventually deteriorate, forming lead dust that poses a health hazard to children 6 and younger.

During 1960 2006, the average annual asbestos use per capita for total import, total import minus reexport, and total import minus export and reexport in Hong Kong was 2.34 kg, 2.17 kg, and 2.15 kg, respectively.

Using the centered moving average method with a 5-year interval, we depicted in graphs the time trends of age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) of mesothelioma, as well as the historical trends of annual per capita asbestos use in terms of three asbestos indices: total import, total import minus reexport, and total import minus export and reexport.