Global economic growth is slow - or slowing - which could cut into America's export sales.
It lost out on export sales to the F-16 in the 1980s.
But there will probably be little long-term benefit from higher export sales.
If export sales stay weak, this year's subsidies could hit a new record.
Kendall-Jackson officials said they expected to increase export sales from 100,000 cases a year to one million by 2010.
This can be a powerful tool for increasing export sales.
More than half of this revenue comes from export sales.
In other words, the usual return on export sales may not be tremendous, but neither is the risk.
The current quarter will be his first to record actual export sales, which are expected to hit £100,000.
Paper companies with large export sales showed strength that was attributed to the foreign trade report.