The export surplus in financial services and insurance was 2.6% of GDP in the first three quarters of 2011.

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In addition, the lower the interest rate, the lower the US dollar and the more likely the US is to move towards running an export surplus.

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And, technology and innovation, the work of our most talented people, underpin the U.S. standard of living: technology-based products and services create a big export surplus and enable the strong productivity growth of the U.S. economy.

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Schleswig-Holstein plans to generate three times as much renewable energy as it consumes and to export the surplus south and west.

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If America fails to export its surplus gas supplies, Asian consumers face very little chance of getting gas markets working on the basis of gas fundamentals, rather than oil indexation folly of old.

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Nor can many car makers hope to use their Brazilian surplus to export cars to other parts of the world.

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This should generate 5, 250MW when finished, increasing electricity production in the country fivefold, providing a surplus for export and allowing Ethiopia to open up as a manufacturer.

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Foreign-investment inflows are slowing, and slower export growth will shrink the trade surplus.

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The export-led growth models of other surplus economies such as Germany and Japan are also both going to have to give way to greater domestic demand.

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It needs the export sector to continue booming, in order to absorb surplus labour from the countryside and moribund state-owned companies.

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