The village as well as the rest of the Bekaa produce the bulk of the fruits in Lebanon and export significant volumes to the Arab countries.

Even though less than half the port facilities had been rebuilt by that stage, within a year import volumes through the port had recovered fully and export volumes were nearly back to where they would have been without the disaster.

Negotiators have been unable to resolve the question of tonnage restrictions, which France rejects but which the United States has been insisting on to prevent the European Community from appearing to reduce subsidies with accounting gimmicks while still exporting large volumes of food with government money.

Like other nisei farms, it exports large volumes of soybeans, fresh fruit, coffee, tea, cacao and cotton - much of the exports go to Japan.

According to Boyko, Tymoshenko had delayed payment of Ukraine's debts in order to arrange for a company owned by Medvedchuk and Bakai to export large volumes of Russian gas.

New York has been exporting large volumes of garbage as it prepares to shut down the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island in 2001.

Most other Eastern European countries use the Schuko standard internally but, prior to its collapse, they exported large volumes of appliances to the Soviet Union with the Soviet standard plug installed.

But the export hopes of the United States-led administration in Baghdad and the Iraqi oil ministry have so far been thwarted by looting at Iraqi oil operations, clouding any view OPEC might have of when Iraq would start exporting again and at what volumes.

Although it is not widely consumed in the west, it has long been popular in China, to the extent that Australia exported large volumes to China in the early twentieth century.

At the same time, Japanese companies started exporting large volumes of cellular telephones and beepers to the United States.