The UK is selling record quantities of arms – including missiles, bombs and grenades – to countries listed by the Foreign Office as having dubious human rights records.
Last year China imported record quantities of rapeseed and soybeans, because foreign oilseed production is cheaper and the quality often higher than that of domestically grown crops.
It has caught several of the top gang leaders, extradited about 50 suspected traffickers to the United States and seized record quantities of drugs.
Meanwhile, Mexican factories are exporting record quantities of televisions, cars, computers and appliances, replacing some Chinese imports in the United States and fueling a modest expansion.
The extreme weather – which is killing record quantities of salmon in rivers around the Northwest — was just another reason why we were prepared to stay as long as required.
As record quantities of illegal drugs are being intercepted in Arizona, those involved in taking people and drugs across the border are increasingly concentrating on the more rewarding smuggling of Chinese immigrants, said David Jimarez, a spokesman for the Border Patrol.
With all of its reactors idle, Japan has been forced to import record quantities of expensive coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) that have dramatically increased CO2 emissions and, the business community says, are putting the country's economic recovery at risk.
Japan has been relying on record quantities of liquefied natural gas to make up for its lost nuclear capacity.
Despite a steady decline in prices over the last five years, record quantities of thermal and coking coal are still dug out of the Hunter Valley and exported to India, Korea, and China, via Newcastle.
