But by 2010, its exports had helped the country to rebound more robustly than most other EU members.
The surging exports have helped create new jobs to replace some of those lost.
Though exports helped bolster growth in the first half of the year, companies continued to trim payrolls.
The export of woollen products to mainland Europe helped the economy rather much.
A. I can't deny that the exports have helped the Korean economy.
Healthy and rising exports would help balance out the squeeze in the domestic economy.
Rising exports of manufactured goods have helped to increase employment, some economists say.
Rising exports have helped lift China to an average annual growth rate of 9.6 percent over the last quarter century.
It is also possible that export has helped save some of it.
More auto parts and consumer goods went out, as surging exports helped keep the nation out of a recession.