11 sentences with 'exports'
Example sentences and phrases with the word exports and other words derived from it.
• « As gatekeepers of east-west trade, the Ottomans could tax both exports and imports to Europe, and during the main period of Ottoman imperialism the conquered territories also provided lucrative plunder. »
• « The United States eclipsed Europe as the leading manufacturing power and the main source of exports in a surprisingly short period - from about 1870 to the early 20th century - driving Europeans to sometimes hysterical levels of fear of becoming economically obsolete. »
• « Until 1857, India was governed by the British East India Company (EIC), the state-sponsored monopoly that was established in the 17th century to exploit overseas trade and which controlled India's monopoly on imports and exports. »
• « In the 1830s, 40 per cent of the total value of India's exports took the form of opium, leading to the outbreak of the first major war between a European power, namely Britain, and the Chinese empire. »
• « Real wages rose in Britain by 80% from 1950 to 1970, French industrial production doubled between 1938 and 1959, and West German exports grew by 600% in one decade: the 1950s. »
• « "For 30 years Germany has not authorised arms exports to Iraq. Yet certain Germans broke our laws, misled the authorities and participated in Saddam Hussein's production of poisonous gases. Our society must ostracise them. »
• « Many German scientists and businessmen were instrumental for more than a decade in Iraq's $5.5 billion programme to produce weapons of mass destruction, although all the while, they claim, they were unaware that Iraq was using these exports for military purposes. »
• « Unlike most Western governments, Germany does not mandate post-shipment inspections to verify whether exports of weapons or advanced technology are going where the documentation indicates and whether they will be used as agreed. Without such verification, no law can prevent weapons technologies from falling into the hands of the world's tyrants. »
• « At that time, the country's total exports were worth US$2.83 billion, and fewer than a million tourists spent US$350 million a year. »
• « Although its area constitutes only six percent of Spanish territory, Catalonia in 1989 contributed approximately 20 percent of Spain's gross national product and a quarter of the country's exports. »