Countries import goods, that they cannot produce themselves or cannot make efficiently, and export goods that other countries want.

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We agreed to reduce tariffs on environmental goods and make it easier to export clean energy technologies that create green jobs.

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Export subsidies make taxpayers incur the higher costs for goods consumers would not otherwise have purchased.

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He said the plunging pound should make it easier for firms to export manufactured goods and firms would be better placed to respond if they increased staff skills and training.

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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.

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