Sentence examples for the export numbers from inspiring English sources
Analysts said the export numbers for March were a surprise.
Although the import numbers from China greatly outweigh the export numbers, the import numbers also influence American jobs and investments.
It doesn't take a data geek to understand that if the job numbers are wrong and the export numbers are wrong, every other number the government generates (and supplies to Congress) is also wrong.
Whether it is Wal-Mart, Apple, Nike or warehousing and transporting Chinese steel in Long Beach, California, the import numbers, like the export numbers, represent large constituencies and lobbying efforts, both in Washington and Beijing, that smooth over the relationship.
The export number represented the third consecutive month of double-digit expansion, as demand from overseas was buoyed by a weaker rupee, which has helped make Indian goods cheaper for purchasers outside the country.
That number will likely rise when the government publishes the military export numbers for 2014, which could be anytime in the coming weeks.
Looking at the inner details of the latest export numbers — what American goods and services are being bought internationally and where — gives a sense of both optimism at the nation's often understated advantages, and reasons to worry about the near-term.
Barclays said that even with December's decline in wholesale inventories, the economy most likely expanded 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter, thanks to the higher export numbers in Friday's trade report.
Most executives worry more about the European export numbers, which have been improving.
One explanation for the surprise pick up in Greek growth over the second quarter was that imports collapsed - thus boosting the country's net export numbers - as the government of Alexis Tsipras became embroiled in long talks with creditors.
Thailand's commerce minister revealed in January that tax cheating inflated the country's export numbers by hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
