This will keep the world economy growing and raise American exports by $40 billion annually.

The cartel has raised exports by about three million barrels a day since March.

New declines may well be necessary to revive the growth that raised exports by 27 percent during the first 11 months of 1988.

As it grappled with the ongoing foreign exchange crisis in early 1993-97, Pakistan's most urgent economic need was to raise both national savings and exports.

The real barrier to raising production and exports, he and others at Northern Oil said, was the lingering devastation from looting.

But Iraq's lingering problems in raising production and exports is likely to limit its role in the meeting, other delegates and industry experts said.

The economy performed fairly well in the first half of the 1980's, raising exports while conserving raw materials.

Norinco raised exports by 20.4 percent in 1986, but the dollar amount is not known.

The decline in the won would not immediately raise exports or limit imports.

On the other hand, subsidies to domestic producers may enable them to offer internationally competitive prices, reducing imports or raising exports.