{"id":2670,"date":"2009-07-06T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2009-07-06T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T21:11:18","slug":"importexport-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2670","title":{"rendered":"Import\/Export Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Euromonitor has recently bulked up their foreign trade offerings. Our <strong><a href=\"\">Passport Reference &amp; Markets<\/a><\/strong> subscription now contains import\/export figures for all sorts of commodities, from fruits to furniture, for approximately 140 countries. Here are a few interesting tidbits that I just learned from looking at the new data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Germany was the world\u2019s biggest exporter of passenger cars in 2008 (US$140,158 million). Forty percent of all of the world\u2019s passenger car exports come from Germany or Japan.<\/li>\n<li>The USA was the world\u2019s biggest importer of petroleum and petroleum products in 2008 (US$482,787 million). However, China is rapidly catching up, with growth of 397% in US$ terms between 2003 and 2008.<\/li>\n<li>China was the world\u2019s biggest exporter of iron and steel in 2008 (US$65,065 million), exporting 41% more than the second biggest (Germany) with exports growing at an annual average rate of 68% between 2003 and 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To access the new information, click on the <strong>Countries<\/strong> link in the main navigational bar &#8211; the statistics can be found under the <strong>Foreign Trade<\/strong> category to the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euromonitor has recently bulked up their foreign trade offerings. Our Passport Reference &amp; Markets subscription now contains import\/export figures for all sorts of commodities, from fruits to furniture, for approximately 140 countries. Here are a few interesting tidbits that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,38],"tags":[119,1728,286,2061,2062,1642,1997,338],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-online-the-library","tag-databases","tag-electronic-resources","tag-euromonitor","tag-foreign-trade","tag-importexport","tag-international-business","tag-passport-reference-and-markets","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}