As for the companies that claim harm from federal financing of exports, they have a steep hill to climb in explaining how their circumstances would be improved if U.S. exporters yielded market share to companies making similar products in other countries.

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Non-petroleum exports are also up as trade financing has become less of a hassle.

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In fact, with the sharp decline in Russian hard currency earnings, the role of arms, space and nuclear exports has undoubtedly increased in importance as has access to various forms of Western financing.

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But it has been fueled by exports that have been driven by the single-currency and a kind of vendor financing that saw German banks extend credit to so-called peripheral European nations, which bought German goods.

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