The agricultural exports of Australia, say, or Saudi Arabia's reliance on oil, clearly stem from their natural resources.
Over 60 percent of U.S. goods exports and 70 percent of U.S. agricultural exports in 2010 were to APEC economies.
U.S. agricultural exports support nearly a million jobs in the United States.
Agricultural exports that used to be the engine of the economy have shriveled, and foreign currency to import goods is hard to come by.
Agricultural exports, which peaked in November, led to a 6.5% increase in overall exports compared to 2009, the largest increase since 1983, when the index debuted.
Brazil has been powered by a trifecta of higher energy production, a strong industrial sector and the highest volume of agricultural exports after the United States.
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The latest rough patch for the North American Free Trade Agreement has been the resistance of Mexican agriculture--especially poultry ranchers--to a New Year's wipeout of tariff protections against U.S. agricultural exports.
The European Union and the United States agreed to remove subsidies on agricultural exports and to reduce other farm aid in a deal that rescues the Doha world trade talks .
And a big component of that is agricultural exports.
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Some agricultural experts also argue that the outside world's relentless focus on developing agricultural exports is perverse in a country that has long been a net food importer and whose people suffer from widespread nutrition deficiencies.
If the Senate approves the agreement by the end of the year, as expected, 80% of U.S. exports of consumer and industrial goods and 90% of agricultural exports to Peru will immediately become duty-free, according to the U.S. trade representative's (USTR) office.
Further insurance to ensure that greenhouse gas reductions from biofuels are significant can come from giving incentives ("the carrot") to developing countries to reduce deforestation and providing a stick of banning biofuel (and maybe all agricultural exports) from countries that don't meet deforestation reduction targets.
It is no wonder that the leadership of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary have already expressed alarm at the impact of American and other Western subsidized grain sales to Moscow because such sales have depressed their own agricultural exports to the Soviet market a source of vitally needed revenue for their fragile economies.
These taxpayer guarantees unlike their counterparts involved in subsidizing agricultural and other exports will be said to be "secure deals, " backed by abundant Soviet energy resources in the ground or under the sea.
In 18 months from now, warns a local agricultural scientist, beef exports will probably cease.
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The central valley is ready and able to expand and exports its agricultural output.
For our farmers and ranchers here in the United States, it will increase exports of agricultural products.
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But energy is apparently unlike the agricultural world, where exports have been long recognized as a profound economic good for the world and for America.
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They argue the government aggravated the situation when it took control of land owned by white farmers, which triggered a sharp drop in production and exports of agricultural goods.
For our farmers and ranchers, it will increase exports of American agricultural products.
Nutmeg exports, the agricultural mainstay, will be down by 90% in 2005.
Most of New Zealand's exports to China are agricultural products particularly milk powder, meat and wool while most of its imports from there are computers, mobile phones and clothes.
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To add insult to injury, these agreements force developing countries to reduce significantly their tariffs on industrial goods from the West, yet at the same time maintain very high tariffs on their competitive exports, such as agricultural goods.
The plant also exports highly nutritious fertilizer to agricultural land across east Lancashire for farmers free of charge.
In the 1960s Ireland's heavily agricultural economy, almost wholly dependent on exports to Britain, was only just emerging from the misguided protectionism that since the 1930s had been the main plank of Eamon De Valera's ill-advised economic policy.
Petroleum products make up the bulk of African exports to the US, but exports of textiles, minerals and agricultural goods have picked up.
By contrast U.S. exports to China consist largely of agricultural commodities, minerals, and even more humiliatingly waste paper and scrap metal and as befits such low-valued Second Worldish goods travel by sea.
In addition, adding Asian-bound exports of meat, soybeans and other agricultural products to existing shipments of metals and other natural resources adds wealth and stability to overall economies the region.
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Cut diamonds, high-technology equipment, and agricultural products (fruits and vegetables) are the leading exports.
Exports have been the engine of growth and agricultural products have been star performers.
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