Maquiladora exports rose 22.4 percent in June, driving a more general export surge for Mexico.

This export surge allowed the government on Friday to set a goal of 5 to 6 percent economic growth this year, double last year's level.

Still, experts found a far from gloomy message in the much-anticipated figures: the export surge could carry Japan into what would be its longest postwar economic boom.

This export surge has changed the balance of the relationship.

In 1987, the export surge gave Ireland a trade surplus in its current account, which includes both goods and services, for the first time in 20 years.

Brazil's export surge is causing a sharp increase in the soybean crop across the cerrado, a vast region of grasslands and savannas.

The question, however, is whether the 1986 export surge was merely a freak phenomenon.

Moreover, low rates, plus an export surge fueled by the cheap lira, revived prospects for corporate profits despite a stubborn domestic recession.

But the reason we did it is that it was so fast and so big," he said of the export surge.

The biggest lift for the economy, however, came from an export surge.