Sentence examples for second biggest importer from inspiring English sources

We are now the world's second biggest exporter, but also its second biggest importer.

Now, though always keen for Africans to back China's claim to Taiwan, the motives are bluntly commercial.China has displaced Japan as African oil's second biggest importer after the United States.

China is the second biggest importer of both goods and commercial services.

China is already the world's second biggest importer and its hunger for resources is keeping commodity-producing countries, such as Australia, in business.

Britain is the third biggest importer.

From 2002 to 2006, Greece was the world's fourth biggest importer of conventional weapons.

There is a touch of the lecture about it (apparently the human hair market is entirely unregulated, and the UK is the third biggest importer in the world) and a personal odyssey in which Melody discovers that she may be more invisible without long blonde hair extensions, but she may also be more herself.

While the EU turns to nuclear, renewables and gas, Caldecott points out China is set to open three large coal plants every month up to 2022, while India is on course to become the world's second biggest coal importer.

Given we're currently more known for importing weapons than exporting them Australia is the fifth biggest arms importer in the world quite a few jobs will presumably be created in order to pull this thing off.

With few natural resources of its own and one of the lowest energy self-sufficiency ratios among industrialised countries, Japan is already the second-biggest importer of oil and the biggest importer of natural gas.

In the course of its transformation from Asia's biggest exporter of oil two decades ago to its second-biggest importer now, China has become increasingly anxious.