Speaking before the Commerce Committee on Thursday, Evans said he would work as commerce secretary to tear down trade barriers and keep them down, while seeking to protect the interests of American workers and even import and export ratios between the United States and a number of key trading partners.
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The Bank cut the base Selic rate last month, citing a slowdown in demand and concerns that the advanced economies might slow even more, easing export demand and commodity prices.
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The technology for LNG was not developed until the 1960s, and even now only 19 countries export liquid gas.
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Even Malaysia and Indonesia, which export oil, will suffer in the longer run from the slowing world economy.
China's "Torch" program fast-tracks industries, attracting entrepreneurs with offers of cheap land for factories, export tax breaks and even a free apartment for three years.
So far, there is no guarantee that exporting gas will be commercially viable, and even if it is, Cyprus won't export the gas until 2018, according to some estimates.
In another app, Capri snapped a three-dimension shot of an object on the table in front of us, captured its measurements and let us export that image to another device or even a 3D printer.
Stephen Green of Standard Chartered thinks export growth could fall to zero next year and even turn negative.
Beijing, in turn, shows little sign of budging on the yuan, even though the latest figures show surprisingly strong export growth and higher-than-expected inflation.
Most of the consumer products that India and China export to Europe may slow, but that will happen even if they help with any temporary bailout.
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Alibaba has been able to build a very powerful data repository, so valuable that even the Chinese government turns to them for export figures and predictions.
Perhaps no issue today, not even the wage competition that leads to export of manufacturing and support jobs, drives greater hostility to markets, globalization and free international trade.
Iran is even facing unlikely competition from Afghanistan as an export route for Central Asian oil and gas.
The study ran numerous scenarios, looking at costs of production and world prices, and found that there were net benefits to the US economy under all export scenarios, even where exports were modeled as unlimited.
The Europeans have won every battle with us at the WTO, even though they routinely rebate domestic value-added taxes to companies that export goods and services from their countries.
The fact is, even in this depressed world situation, economies that are export oriented, high-tech and can expand domestic services - including mixed-economy health services - are growing.
We export in order to pay for our imports even though that is hard to see since importers and exporters tend to be different people with different motivations.
But even those who know recovery will be slow and painful are perturbed by the persistence of one particular symptom: poor export performance.
Some Europeans are reconsidering even that, though the European Union this week renewed its sanctions directed at members of the junta and at the export of Burmese gems, timber and metals.
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