Since the Asian crisis, these countries have kept their currencies down, exporting like mad to restore their external balances.
And we gave them a boost with a contract from the Small Business Administration so they can counsel the small businesses that spring from this cluster on things like patents and exporting, and getting these revolutionary products to market faster.
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But exporting popular cultural totems like Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola, Levis jeans, and the iPhone, is one thing.
The government is now encouraging entrepreneurs to get into the iguana-exporting business with incentives like subsidized rent.
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Thieves in the U.K. adapted to the blacklist, exporting more stolen phones to places like Africa and India, notes Mr. Wraith.
Exporting jobs to low-wage countries like Mexico and China is an old game at GM and Ford, through their now-independent partsmakers Delphi and Visteon.
In fact, gas is so plentiful in the U.S. right now that companies like Cheniere Energy have gotten the green light to start exporting it. (See: To Import Less Oil, U.S. Must Export More Gas).
In Germany, where half the gross domestic product comes from exporting companies such as Siemens, chemical makers like BASF or carmakers like Volkswagen and Porsche, hard-to-find skilled workers with training and certain qualifications are valued over temporary staff.
It is still higher than the oil-consuming countries would like, although the price is now within the range preferred by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and OPEC members are already muttering about production cuts to prevent further falls.
The cellphones, bank branches, and supermarkets that multinational firms are increasingly exporting to Africa and Asia have done more to uplift the poor than many would like to admit.
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Second, the UK has a currency that adjusts to the competitive strength or weakness of the UK economy alone, whereas - arguably - the exporting businesses of Spain and Italy are forced to sell overseas at higher prices than they would ideally like because the euro's value is determined by the perceived robustness of Germany's formidable manufacturing capacity.
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