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This is a list of countries by net goods exports, also known as balance of trade, which is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain time period. [1] The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1 .
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon, [b] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean , southwest of the Bay of Bengal , separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait .
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Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [40] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [41]
The single largest investment in the 140-plus year history of Hayleys (and the largest acquisition of a public listed company at the time) was the 10.8 billion rupee controlling stake of Singer Sri Lanka in 2017, [32] followed by the buying over of the five-star Ceylon Continental Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka (now known as The Kingsbury) in 2010.
The economy of Ecuador is the eighth largest in Latin America and the 69th largest in the world by total GDP. [17] Ecuador's economy is based on the export of oil, bananas, shrimp, gold, other primary agricultural products and money transfers from Ecuadorian emigrants employed abroad. [18] In 2017, remittances constituted 2.7% of Ecuador's GDP ...
For most economies worldwide, their leading export and import trading partners in terms of value are typically the United States, the European Union (EU) or China. Emerging markets such as Russia, Brazil, India, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Turkey, and Iran are becoming increasingly important as major markets or source countries in various regions.
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