Fishing and fish farming are the most important industries, but both tourism and the export of high quality stone (breccia) to Italy are expanding.

Though the dollar has now dropped sharply, and imports are receding while exports expand, Congress seems bent nonetheless on muscular posturing.

By 2003, Chinese exports had expanded to 60 percent of the American total, and in 2005 the figure hit 84 percent.

In the oil-and-gas sector, output and exports would expand by 25-to-50 percent (adding 3 percent to world crude oil production).

In the past, whenever American exports expanded, Latin America always stepped forward to purchase a big share of the additional goods.

"Our exports have expanded 5.9 percent in the first 11 months over the same period last year," she said.

Under the trade agreement, the export of Mexican products in Mexican trucks would vastly expand.

The economy remained in a slump in December, although production levels rose and exports expanded, the nation's purchasing managers said in a monthly report.

Productive capacity, exports, and the substitution of imports in various sectors expanded and became more diversified.

They have cracked Japan and other overseas markets in recent years, and exports are expanding faster than domestic consumption is shrinking.