"They are almost completely export oriented, and that's quite the reverse of the U.S".
Many smaller companies, being export oriented, have been especially hard hit by the global slowdown.
"If our cargo capabilities are maxed out," he said, "less attention is paid to expand export oriented, high value manufacturing here".
Indirect ecological and social effects are not only based on the production of raw materials for bioenergy, but are also for the whole industrialised and export oriented agricultural products.
As far as infrastructure is concerned, improving manufacturing is important and it needs to be export oriented.
South Cambridge has a high proportion of high tech firms that are export oriented and a varied sector mix.
A simple adaptation of the Grubel-Lloyd index that uses net imports (or net exports) provides information about whether an industry is relatively more import oriented or export oriented, not only about whether its trade is balanced.
"Previously," says Free, "the MFG.com platform was only in English and we were only attractive to Chinese companies who were fluent in English and export oriented.
Despite the fact that the Indian food processing industry is primarily export oriented, the market within the country of about a billion people is also rapidly expanding.
China's stimulus package came last month as the impact on export-oriented economies in Asia began to be felt; since then, economic data for November, released in the last 10 days, has shown that the pace of growth is slowing more rapidly than had been expected only weeks ago.
Noting that 77,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost this year, Andrew Jackson, senior economist at the Canadian Labor Congress in Ottawa, said he was concerned that pressure on export-oriented manufacturers would slow the economy, as happened in the late 1980's and early 1990's, when the Canadian currency was also riding high.
