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China is by far North Korea's most important formal ally, and overwhelmingly its biggest trading partner.
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Over the past 12 years, a competitiveness gap has opened up between France and Germany, its biggest trading partner.
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To the extent that this weakens European growth, Britain will suffer since the euro area is its biggest trading partner, buying nearly half of British exports.
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The EU is its biggest trading partner.
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While six of Australia's top ten export markets are already in recession, the chief impact has come from the slowdown in one that is not: China, its biggest trading partner, and the main driver of a minerals boom that has fed fat company-tax revenues.
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Jordanian industry, for instance, is highly dependent on Iraq, Jordan's biggest trading partner and its only supplier of oil.
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In 2009, the US lost its position as Brazil's biggest trading partner to China, but bilateral trade still runs to billions of dollars.
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Brazil is Paraguay's biggest trading partner, and its purchase of electricity from Itaipu, the vast hydroelectric dam the two countries share, represents Paraguay's second-biggest export.
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As China has become more industrialized, it has become Australia's biggest trading partner and buyer of its commodities, including raw materials such as copper and iron ore.
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Russia is Turkey's biggest single trading partner and provides 68% of its gas.
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To make matters worse, China - Japan's biggest trading partner - is also seeing a slowdown in its pace of growth.
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If America does not want a narco state as a neighbour and second-biggest trading partner, it should fight this war on its own soil.
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