principal export

collocation in English

meaningsofprincipalandexport

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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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export
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈek.spɔːt/us
/ˈek.spɔːrt/
a product that you sell in another country, or the business of sending goods to another country in order to sell ...
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(Definition ofprincipalandexportfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This industry'sprincipalexportopportunities are in specialities and grades with high added value.
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It is one of theprincipalexportlines in the trade.
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This country cannot afford to allow that to happen, because we cannot afford to allow ourprincipalexportindustry to be destroyed.
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I would like to point out what has been the position in some of ourprincipalexporttrades.
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We are their export market: in every case, we are just about theirprincipalexportmarket.
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The main causes of the decline in exports of motor vehicles this year have been import restrictions in some of the industry'sprincipalexportmarkets.
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The fields were set alight by forked lighting, the howling winds flattened the banana crop, the island'sprincipalexport, and parts of the island's roads ceased to exist.
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Declining income with the fall in commodity values—the continent'sprincipalexport—and a corresponding increase in the cost of manufactured products have all led to extreme difficulties.
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It is theprincipalexport.
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Cane sugar became theprincipalexportand recently has been augmented by expanded production of citrus, bananas, seafood, and apparel.
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Prices of coffee, the otherprincipalexportproduct, have been more variable.
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A severe drought in 1992 decimated theprincipalexportcrops.
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Potatoes and citrus are theprincipalexportcrops.
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In addition to its domestic use, sesame is also theprincipalexportoilseed.
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Later, one coffee planter begged the government to remove the export tax on his product and put it on rice and beans (alsoprincipalexportproducts of the time).
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Theprincipalexportis copra.
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This suggestion for an international conference of principal exporting and importing countries has been announced only in very general terms.
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I should like to point out where we stand as the result of that agreement in respect of the principal exporting industries of this country.
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The table appended shows the value of the domestic exports of merchandise per head of the population in some principal exporting countries.
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The principal exporting firm in this town is a small shipbuilding firm which builds medium-sized ocean-going trawlers and tugs.
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