U., United States and Japanaccounted for 44% of total trade, down from 50.2% in 2007.
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Rather bizarrely, imports detract from GDP, even though total trade is a better indicator of economic health.
And 80% of America's total trade is conducted by just 1% of firms that export or import.
The Indian market is crucial for Nepalese exporters, accounting for about 40% of total trade with Nepal.
But over the same period, the share of outsiders in ASEAN's total trade fell from 80% to 75%.
Trade within the euro area as a proportion of total trade fell in the three years to 2001.
Once the final figures are calculated for 1998, the total trade deficit is likely to be far worse.
America's trade with China is merely half its total trade with Mexico, and even less than that with South-East Asia.
But the declines in the price of steam ship transportation were so great that the total trade barriers were falling.
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With extraordinary speed, China has become Brazil's most important economic partner: total trade between the two countries has risen 17-fold since 2002.
Total trade settled in yuan in 2010 surged to 506.3bn yuan, about 2.5% of China's total trade in 2010, from almost zero in 2009.
And transport costs have been falling so far and so fast that even if tariffs had doubled, tripled, the total trade barriers would still have fallen.
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Intraregional trade in Asia climbed from a fifth of the region's total trade after the second world war to a third in the 1980s to over half today.
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China comes second with approximately 12 percent of total trade.
Exports to the United States account in all cases for at least half of total trade and, in the case of Dominican Republic, for as much as 84% of export earnings.
Nowhere does it mention that U.S. manufacturing jobs peaked in 1979 (well before trade with China was more than a statistical rounding error in our total trade figures) and has been trending downward ever since.
Since Mexico joined the North American Free-Trade Agreement, linking its economy with the United States and Canada, its trade with Europe has become less important: as a share of total trade, it fell to 6.3% in 1997, down from 8.8% in 1993.
The US has maintained a near total trade embargo against Cuba since 1962, but during his first term in office President Barack Obama relaxed restrictions on Cuban Americans' travel to the island and raised the limit on the amount of money they could send to family members there.
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In fact the most surefire ways of making sure that investments are active is to meet the requirements for a real estate professional (spending at least 750 hours per year materially participating in real estate activities and having real estate activities be over 50% of your total trade and business activities).
In the case of U.S. and Zambia, total bilateral trade more than doubled in 2011.
But compared with the total annual trade in illicit goods, the heist was small change.
Trade with China represents 3.5% of the British trade total, or a quarter of the business we do with the US and a third of the business we do with Germany.
Mexico is the third largest trade partner of the U.S., accounting for 12.9% of the total U.S. trade in 2012.
By the 1930s, under the chairmanship of Ernest Oppenheimer, De Beers' cartel had near total sway over the trade.
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The purchase price--13% of E-Trade's total equity at the time--was 174 times Telebanc's earnings for the year.
By the early 2000s EU subsidies to olive oil production amounted to twice the total value of olive oil trade in the world.
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It is not a scientific approach, nor one I am comfortable using in assessing the total value of the worldwide trade in illegal antiquities.
"It makes no sense for us to consider this trade issue in total isolation from the real world that we live in, " he said.
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