Sentence examples for trade estimated from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama's extra troops will largely be battling a Taliban insurgency fed by an opium trade estimated at $300 million a year.

The drug is produced predominantly in the Golden Triangle, a remote, jungle-studded area where Thailand, Burma and Laos join and ethnic armed militias rule a trade estimated to be worth $8.5bn£5.5bnbn).

COME TOGETHER TO SMUGGLE Many observers say the Balkan oil-smuggling trade, estimated to run as high as $100 million annually, has fostered a rare easing of ethnic tensions built around smuggling routes that run across divided territory.

But with the trade estimated to run as high as $100 million annually, many observers say it has actually fostered a rare ethnic easing of tensions built around smuggling routes that run across divided territory.

More recently, the government of Indonesia (which has the world's third-biggest tropical forests, after Brazil and Congo, but the biggest timber trade) estimated its annual losses at around $3 billion.

Supporters also said that over the long run the guidelines should work to make the criteria more standardized, rather than arbitrary, as countries agree on norms of sale in a trade estimated at $70 billion annually.

Benjamin Woods Labaree, the most attentive scholar of the Colonial tea trade, estimates that three-quarters of the 1.2 million pounds of tea that Americans consumed each year was smuggled.

With just five commodities the company is targeting to start, Trade estimates West Africa is potentially a $3 billion market for the company.

This information enabled us to tabulate the trade, estimate the airport-to-airport air cargo demand and calibrate the international and domestic freight tariffs.

Mr Trade estimates that some 22.4bn reais (£7bn: $11bn) is being invested in World Cup infrastructure projects, such as the stadiums, roads, airports and public transport.

Regulators are seeking management fees earned by the company during the period of the rapid trading, estimated to total $250 million, as well as millions of dollars of profit from improper trading.