This is key for Japan's overall economy, as it relies heavily on its export sector for growth.
To make matters worse, a slowdown in demand from key global markets also hurt the export sector.
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Subsidies for a hard-hit export sector, say, seem to make sense as a response to the global downturn.
If Europe melts down while China stumbles, our strong export sector will decline.
Devaluation gave the export sector a boost and helped turn the trade balance as its products looked more attractive.
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Peru's export sector, particularly specialty vegetables and fruits, is growing at an impressive rate, as well as mining investments.
The export sector, despite tough competition from China, began growing again last year, bolstered in part by higher oil prices.
It needs the export sector to continue booming, in order to absorb surplus labour from the countryside and moribund state-owned companies.
If lower capital spending and pressure on the export sector reduce overall employment growth, that will quickly dampen income and hence spending.
The Republic's own export sector is growing but its domestic market remains weak as consumers deal with debts, tax rises and spending cuts.
Sceptics argue that much of this investment, especially in China, is in the export sector and so will collapse as sales to America weaken.
In another development, hundreds of thousands of Kenyans working in agriculture, the country's largest export sector, face economic uncertainty because of the flight bans.
There are hopes that as shipments to key markets recover and the yen continues to remain weak, Japan's export sector may see a sustained recovery.
But emerging Asia's biggest investment weakness is outside the export sector.
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Its domestic demand (and particularly household demand) is already playing a much bigger role in driving growth, relative to the export sector, than it used to.
But, far from supporting the recovery, our export sector actually pulled it down in 2012, with net exports subtracting about 0.8 percentage points from the annual rate of growth.
Despite Lesotho's market-based economy being heavily tied to its neighbor South Africa, the US is an important trade partner because of the export sector's heavy dependence on apparel exports.
Chinese stock markets managed to eke out gains on companies' overseas investments and Beijing's measures to support the ailing export sector, and South Korean equities gained on favorable industrial data.
The rise in business investment that has accounted for two-fifths of the recovery is also heavily focused on the export sector and on companies with a high share of earnings from overseas.
Between January 2001 and December 2002, the maquiladora, or manufacture-for-export sector in Mexico, lost 230, 000 jobs out of a total 1.3 million as hundreds of companies either shifted production out of Mexico or shut down completely.
The step faces several pitfalls, though, and could have unintended consequences, including an unstable exchange rate or a strengthening currency that hobbles the country's nascent export sector just as the country is re-entering the global economy.
One is a more dynamic export sector.
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The effect of earlier unilateral interventions have so far proven to be short lived, but politicians are under pressure to support the export sector as the country seeks to build momentum after its second recession in three years.
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There is no reason why the state should be paying salaries for people who have not shown up to work in decades or be hostage to a taxi union keen on maintaining their monopoly at the expense of tourism, which comprises almost the whole Greek export sector.
If the government meets its goal of massively expanding the export-oriented manufacturing sector, for example, India will become another big target for developed-country protectionists.
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The second threat is failure to secure the medium-term structural shifts in fiscal positions, in management of the financial sector and in export-dependency, that are needed if a sustained and healthy global recovery is to occur.
The National Export Initiative (NEI) shall be an Administration initiative to improve conditions that directly affect the private sector's ability to export.
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In the UK, activity in the manufacturing sector edged higher in January despite falling export orders.
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