Russia's domestic gas demand is slowly rising, and its exports to Europe could double in the next decade.
Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate foreign-relations committee, has threatened to respond by restricting military exports to Europe.
However, Iran's Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said that a cut in exports to Europe would not hurt Tehran.
The only growth of U.S exports to Europe may be in American tourists.
Japan has posted a record high trade deficit for 2012, as exports to Europe and China continued their plunge.
That space also gives the government room to stimulate growth again, should exports to Europe fall off a cliff.
In China exports to Europe fell by about 5% in the first eight months of this year, compared with a year earlier.
American coal exports to Europe increased by 29 per cent last year.
Even more significantly, Ankara gave a green light to Iranian gas exports to Europe through the Nabucco gas pipeline which runs from Turkey to Austria.
After some steps designed to build confidence on the other side including lifting some barriers to U.S. meat exports to Europe Washington decided to take the plunge.
U. will continue to be a significant factor in China growth, and will surely limit prospects for any revival in Chinese exports to Europe this year.
As the U.S. has reduced its coal consumption, it has increased its coal exports to Europe, which rose 23% in 2012 from a year earlier, according to federal statistics.
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Meanwhile, local governments, overburdened with infrastructure projects, are raising taxes at three times the rate of increase in gross domestic product, just as exports to Europe are hit by the euro-zone crisis.
Iran's parliament echoed the defiant tone by saying it would consider an immediate halt of oil exports to Europe to pre-empt the oil embargo, which the EU set to begin on July 1 to give its members time to find alternative supply sources.
It is already becoming more of a middle income country in terms of per capita income compared to other Asian nations, and it is unlikely that Chinese consumption can make up for the decline in exports to Europe, something many investors are hoping for.
That's because so far the U.S. recession (if that's what we've got) is mainly tied to housing, a sector that doesn't affect Mexico much, he says, except as a drag on remittances sent by Mexicans working in the U.S. The Mexican peso's weakness against the euro has also helped drive up Mexico's exports to Europe.
Moscow wants to gain control over Ukrainian pipelines, through which most of Russian exports flow to Europe.
There, three-fifths of manufactured exports go to Europe and the United States.
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He advised GreenForest's co-chief executives on how to become a paperless company within three years, and recommended equipment and computer systems needed to boost production and increase exports to Western Europe.
The result is that, though exports to South-East Asia have fallen by 18%, exports to America and Europe have risen by 27%.
There are some green shoots: exports to countries outside Europe are increasing and some competitiveness is returning.
Export volumes to the United States are falling, while the growth in exports to Asia and Europe is slowing.
This boom is helping to lessen South-East Asia's dependence on exports to America, Europe and Japan, which are stuck in the doldrums.
Arjuna Mahendran from HSBC Private bank said the most alarming part was the decline in exports from Japan to Europe as a slowdown in the latter hurt demand.
The word cherry has roots in the Greek word kerasos, and is also associated with the Turkish city of Cerasus (now Giresun), where the first exports of cherries to Europe originated.
The Asian recovery has been driven largely by exports to the US and Europe, the IMF added.
Nevertheless, in the latest period, exports to traditional markets in Europe and North America slowed to a combined growth of around 5% from a year earlier.
The Tokyo-based Japan Center for Economic Research estimates that the economy shrank in both October and November, in large measure due to weak exports with Europe as the primary culprit.
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