September 20, 2021

Exports

A woman picks roses inside a greenhouse at Wildfire Flowers on February 13th, 2019, in Naivasha, Kenya. Kenya accounts for 38 percent of the flower industry's market share in the European Union, according to the Kenya Flower Council, an industry group. Approximately 50 percent of its exported flowers are sold at auctions in the Netherlands, the source of most of Europe's Valentine's Day bouquets. Kenya's floriculture industry earned more than $800 million in 2017, providing employment to over 100,000 people in the country, according to industry data.
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Viewfinder: Inside Kenya's Floriculture Industry

A woman picks roses inside a greenhouse at Wildfire Flowers on February 13th, 2019, in Naivasha, Kenya.

New buses are lined up for export at a port in Lianyungang, in east China's Jiangsu province, on November 4th, 2018. Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged today to widen access to China's economy, a promise delivered amid growing foreign accusations that his government was backtracking on grand reform promises.
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Viewfinder: Exporting Buses From a Chinese Port

New buses are lined up for export at a port in Lianyungang, in east China's Jiangsu province, on November 4th, 2018.

A natural gas field in the Netherlands.
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The U.S. Is on Track to Become a Net Exporter of Energy

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World’s Weird America: How Our Most Popular Products Are Seen Overseas

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Third Coast Diaspora: Chicago Is the World City

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