During the commodity boom in 2001-2008, it shrank by an average of 1% a year, whereas the world's other top 20 mining-export countries grew by an average of 5% a year.
The rush to Bangladesh began in earnest in 2005, when an international trade quota system called the Multi Fiber Arrangement expired, lifting the strict limit on the amount of textiles and garments developing countries could export to developed countries.
Chinese companies have a great potential to export to countries like Kenya and Tanzania where the per capita incomes, operating conditions and emission standards are closer to those in China than they are to those in more developed countries.
In an important step forward, countries with large surpluses and export-oriented countries agreed to take additional steps to support growth and boost demand in their own countries.
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We are working for international agreement to extend this to cover other countries which provide export credits for poor countries as well.
Some analysts note that in many cases the South American countries export the same products.
The technology for LNG was not developed until the 1960s, and even now only 19 countries export liquid gas.
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If the United States is going to save and export more, countries in emerging Asia will have to rely more on their own shoppers and on each other.
"Some African countries export fruit and import fruit juice, or export olives and import olive oil, simply because their past colonialists did not teach them how to process food, " he told the AFP news agency.
In an interview, Jennifer Cohn, medical coordinator for MSF's access campaign, said the ruling reinforces the idea that India won't patent drugs that are "not significantly innovative, " leaving generics companies free to produce many products for domestic use or for export to other countries where the drugs aren't protected by patent.
Countries import goods, that they cannot produce themselves or cannot make efficiently, and export goods that other countries want.
While it is legal to export plastics for recycling in some countries, it is illegal to export waste.
The group has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents, and its companies export products and services to 85 countries.
Yen depreciation explains some of the weakness in the export figures of these countries.
Second, many countries that export to the United States (especially Asian ones) price their goods in dollars.
The directive also bars the export of data to countries that do not have comparably stringent protections.
They fan protectionist forces, particularly as the IMF encourages troubled countries to export their way out of trouble.
The European Union (EU) does not normally let member governments insure short-term export credits to developed countries anyway.
It is the sort of thing Kenya could export to other poor countries.
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Still, deep financial crises in the past have mostly been country-specific or regional, allowing countries to export their way out.
IMF, for instance, showed that poor countries which export capital have grown faster than those which rely on importing it from abroad.
Apparently, Chinese companies were using the two countries to export to Brazil.
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The dramatic increases in export ratios seen in countries like Germany or China during the last boom will not be replicated in this recovery.
Since then, trade liberalisation has reduced tariffs on industrial products dramatically, spurring export growth and helping countries like Japan and Korea become industrial giants.
Farmers are also concerned about damage to the export trade as many countries, such as the US, will not allow imports of vaccinated meat and livestock.
He said that any aid G8 members might announce for Africa at the summit would "not make sense" unless poor countries could export their goods more freely.
Most recently, the Administration decided on 19 January 1990 to exempt certain East European countries from export controls on selected items such as advanced computers, telecommunications equipment, and machine tools.
The countries that export cotton are getting less revenue and getting deeper into debt and farmers individually can't afford basic things like health care and even food in some cases.
And now the U.S. wants to get into the business of persuading countries to export their newly rich consumers to the U.S. to pick up the slack in demand left by empty-pocketed American consumers.
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