"The Soviets have the second-biggest market in the world," he said.

Georgia is its second-biggest market.

The fact is that Mexico, growing again and hungry to modernize, is on the verge of becoming America's second-biggest foreign market.

Almost a third of sales are generated there, three times the volume in Sweden, the second-biggest market.

Standards are also higher in China, both the world's second-biggest car market and G.M.'s second-biggest market.

Sales showed significant improvement in Germany, executives said, eBay's second-biggest market.

China is the world's largest mobile phone market, and Apple's second-biggest market.

General Motors, for instance, is pushing to make China its second-biggest market, behind the United States.

Mexico is the second-biggest market.

In several quarters last year McDonald's noted that the company got a boost from its European restaurants, its second-biggest market.