Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter of oil, was the first to call for an investigation.
Israel is the world's largest exporter of drones and drone technology, and the state-owned Israeli Aerospace Industries has sold to countries as varied as Nigeria, Russia and Mexico.
The development is part of ambitious plans to further cement Australia's position as the world's largest coal exporter against a backdrop of booming global demand, by opening up deposits in the Galilee Basin in Queensland state.
Between January and October, Saudi Arabia imported 31, 300 metric tons of beef, putting it among the top 10 largest importers from Brazil, the world's largest beef exporter.
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And since we are the world's largest exporter, who will be hurt more?
China has become the world's largest exporter of information and communications technology.
The United States is also the world's largest exporter of cotton.
In 2009 China surpassed Germany to become the world's largest exporter.
For six years it has been the world's largest exporter.
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Consider the Philippines, the world's largest exporter of nurses.
Some of them also see Myanmar as a valuable asset to ASEAN: it is the world's largest exporter of teak and has important offshore oil and gas deposits (though it is also true that the junta has run large parts of the economy, including the financial system, into the ground).
The turmoil in the world's emerging markets in 1997 and 1998 hit Germany, the world's second-largest exporter, harder than other developed countries.
Australia is the world's largest coal exporter and one of the biggest per capita greenhouse gas emitters.
Additionally, Thailand, at the basic end of production--it is the world's largest rice exporter, for example--has to watch the emergence of low-wage Vietnam as a "China plus one" world supply source.
China limits purchases from India, the world's largest rice exporter, due to quality concerns.
The US - the world's largest wheat exporter - is also predicting that it will have a bumper current crop.
America is likely to retain its place as the world's largest food exporter, but its position is no longer unchallenged.
Thailand, the world's largest rice exporter, is also considering restrictions.
While the Kingdom is the world's largest oil exporter, power demand is growing approximately 8% per year, prompting authorities to investigate alternative sources of power, that can ease the demand on its primary source of income.
It's mining company, Vale, is the world's largest iron ore exporter and China is its biggest buyer.
Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa's second-biggest economy after South Africa's and the world's eighth-largest oil exporter, yet the continent's most populous country (with 140m-plus citizens) has yet to fulfil its economic potential.
Although Venezuela is the world's fifth largest oil exporter, its economy contracted by more than 7% in the first half of the year.
Norway is the world's fifth largest oil exporter, producing almost 2.5m barrels a day.
Mitterrand also pursued hard money policies and deregulation that modernized France, the world's fourth-largest exporter.
This year, India will displace the United States as the world's third largest beef exporter, behind Brazil and Australia.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been acknowledged for his programs aimed at fighting poverty in the world's fifth largest oil exporter.
Thailand, which was the world's fourth-largest exporter of poultry before bird flu hit, would be reluctant to abandon all hope of resuming exports.
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