Germany supplies more than 12% of world exports of chemicals, the biggest single share.
If it continued to expand at this pace, China might grab around one-quarter of world exports within ten years.
Between 2005 and 2009 Germany's share of world exports grew, whereas France's shrank.
Foreign affiliates now account for one-tenth of world GDP and one-third of world exports, the agency's World Investment Report said.
That would beat America's 18% share of world exports in the early 1950s, a figure that has since dropped to 8%.
And it's working: U.S. cotton makes up 40 percent of world exports.
China's rising share of world exports will command much more attention.
Nordas says China accounts for 30% of the world exports in clothing and 22% of textiles (as of 2002), and that its share is indeed growing.
As for the popular belief that Asian producers are grabbing an ever-larger slice of exports, the region's 31% share of world exports last year was not much higher than in 1995 (28%) and remains smaller than western Europe's.
An IMF working paper published in 2009 calculated that if China remained as dependent on exports as in recent years, then to sustain annual GDP growth of 8% its share of world exports would rise to about 17% by 2020.
Brazil accounts for about a third of world soyabean exports, second only to America.
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Six months ago the Asian economies were among the hardest hit in the world, as exports to the rich world plunged.
On news of bans in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, India and Egypt (which between them grew 40% of world rice exports in 2007), the price tripled within a few weeks.
But energy is apparently unlike the agricultural world, where exports have been long recognized as a profound economic good for the world and for America.
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Its share of world output and exports surged during the 1980s and early 1990s.
We led the world in service exports, which support 2.8 million jobs.
According to the World Bank, exports of fish products from piracy-hit countries have also suffered, declining by 23.8% since 2006, the year the report takes as the starting point of piracy.
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Beijing is also obtaining colonial-style control of energy and other natural resources (including, notably some 98% of the world's exports of rare earth minerals that are indispensable for state-of-the-art manufacturing for a host of commercial and military purposes).
But, in their letter to the FT, the business leaders argue that, if the UK left the EU, it could spend 10 years trying to renegotiate the type of trade deals achieved by the 27-member organisation, which could "seriously damage our world-leading exports" of legal and financial services.
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The European elites argued that the countries belonging to the European Union constituted a larger economy than the U.S. and that EU exports to the rest of the world exceeded U.S. exports.
If the home industry makes too much, it will depress the price of its exports on world markets, damaging the country's terms of trade, and hurting workers.
Instead, the key factor behind export growth is the general health of the global economy, which determines how many units of Japan's competitively but not cannibalistically priced exports the world buys.
However, China cannot subsidize exports under world trade rules.
Projections in the IMF's World Economic Outlook imply that China's exports will account for 12% of world trade by 2014.
That's one reason this crisis is so much worse than the Mexican one: Latin America's exports only account for 4% of the world's total, whereas Asia's exports tip the scale at 25%.
Of all the goods that America exports to the world, less than 2 percent go to India.
Those with a long memory know that the Japanese were originally known after World War II for their exports of so-called dollar blouses.
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