China global exports

Table 4 Global export and import of WEEE perEU-WEEE category, estimations for China 2005, from Zoeteman et al. [1], modified, full table see Annex 2...

Tables 1.1 and 1.2 show the leading global exporters and importers of clothing for the year 2012. It can be observed that China and the EU are the leading exporters and importers of clothing, respectively. Furthermore, a majority of the Asian countries are among the leading exporters of clothing items.

The largest producers of rapeseed are the European Union (30%), Canada (25.2%), and China (20.33%). Since 1974, Canada has dominated the export market. Canada is the worldleading exporter, accounting for 60% of the global export. About 60% of the exported rapeseed... 

Zoeteman et al. [1] present an estimation on global e-waste flow for the year 2005. They identified USA, EU-25, and Japan as the important exporting actors and China, India and West Africa as the common importers of e-waste. The calculations of Zoeteman et al. [1] (Table 2 of their article) are based on a number of assumptions and presented in Table 4. 

Source ACC, Import and Export Database, Global Insight, China Chemical Companies Database (COCO), McKinsey analysis Fig. 32.1 Strong growth ofthe Chinese chemical industry. 

This imbalance of trade in chemicals has come about not only because certain commodity petrochemicals produced in the United States are now less competitive globally, as a result of higher natural gas costs, but also because such Asian countries as China and India have now become substantial, reliable exporters of specialty chemicals and pharma intermediates. 

In the past several years, the global tea production has been greater than tea consumption. The world tea market remains in oversupply. As FAO mentioned, the increase of consumption should be done by exploration of both the traditional export markets and domestic markets of producing countries. Particularly, the producing countries market has remarkable potential to increase their per capita tea consumption levels. For example, per capita consumption levels in India, China, and Kenya are only 0.69, 0.52, and 0.40 kg, respectively, while per capita consumption levels in the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom are 1.26 and 2.20 kg, respectively. 

Critical to the vitality of the U.S. soybean complex is the continued expansion of the livestock sector. For example, over the last ten years, poultry production in the United States grew only two-thirds of the world rate, and exports grew only one-fourth of the global rate. This indicates that poultry production is not only growing faster outside the United States, but new demand is being met by offshore producers, such as Brazil and China. China would source some of their soybeans from the United States, while Brazil will not. The challenge for the U.S. soybean industry is how to make U.S. soybeans and soybean meal a preferred input for the rapidly expanding livestock and aquaculture industries overseas. 

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