commodity export

No considerable changes have taken place in the structure of commodity exports.

Commodity exports are again one of the bright spots in the nation's international trade picture.

The third area, finding ways to stabilize income from commodity exports, will take some doing.

In many cases, the falling world price of the region's commodity exports contributed.

Even if they are successful, however, Russia will emerge from this period more dependent on commodity exports and less competitive in the global economy.

Last year, bulk commodity exports increased 35.5 percent in Los Angeles.

Canada's fiscal recovery relied partly on commodity exports and happened when the global economy was in rude health.

In more recent years, manufacturing, and in particular electronics, has represented a new direction away from dependence on commodity exports.

For decades, Australia's balance of trade has depended primarily upon commodity exports such as minerals and agricultural products.

Persistent drought and weaker world resources prices are forecast to reduce the value of Australia's commodity exports by about 5 percent in 2003-4.

There also have been significant declines in commodity exports to South Korea and Taiwan.

Brazil finished 2004 with a record trade surplus of $33.7 billion, benefiting from surging commodities exports.

In the 1970's Peru enjoyed better prices for its commodity exports and was able to borrow heavily abroad.

Repayment of such loans might be guaranteed by expected future mineral or commodity exports, yet to be developed.

The global economic surge, coupled with the huge pull of resources to China, have been a boon to Brazil's commodity exports.

To soften its dependence on commodity exports, Malaysia is now trying to emphasize manufactured exports, including small cars.

By the end of the 1990s, tourism was Belize's fastest growing economic sector, surpassing commodity exports.

The government was keen to reduce Malaya's dependence on commodity exports, which put the country at the mercy of fluctuating prices.

According to 2005 figures, Vanuatu caught 151,080 fish in that year, with frozen fish accounted for half of the country's commodity exports.

One disincentive has been a sharp drop in earnings from Zaire's principal commodity exports -copper and cobalt.

Production is overwhelmingly of a subsistence nature, and a large part of commodity exports are provided by the small agricultural cash-crop sector.

In 1984 petroleum had accounted for about 70 percent of all commodity exports and about 50 percent of the central government's revenues.

Brazil posted a record trade surplus in 2004 for the second consecutive year, benefiting from a boom in commodities exports to markets like China.

Until 1960, it was more reliant on commodities exports than countries like Kenya, South Africa and Lebanon.

Expansionary policies and commodity exports triggered a rebound in GDP from 2003 onwards.