The bank also extends export credit insurance facilities to cover risks undertaken by US exporters.
Prices have soared partly because of a severe drought in Russia, which was one of the world's biggest exporters of wheat in 2009.
If their confidence is misplaced, heaping more trouble on Canadian exporters already struggling to cope with the recession, the bilateral relationship is likely to sour.
Demand for coffee brewed with beans plucked from the dung of the furry, weasel-like creatures -- known locally as luwaks -- is surging among well-healed connoisseurs around the world, exporters say.
A strong currency can be a curse for exporters, however.
Regional growth may slip to 5.8 % by 2009 as oil exporters respond to international conditions and restrain output moderately.
Therefore, cargo insurance is an activity aiming at moving the burden of risk from the exporters and importers to the underwriters.
There are indeed lots of successful Italian exporters.
But then, it makes little sense to accelerate currency appreciation while giving exporters a helping hand.
"If we are to remain big exporters as the rest of the world advances, we must specialize in the sunrise industries, not the sunset ones," he said.
The pound's rapid appreciation is creating problems for exporters.
But membership in the euro zone means Italy can't devalue to bring some relief to its exporters.
That money, most of which went to a handful of very large landowners and agribusiness corporations, allowed U.S. exporters to sell rice at 30% to 50% below their real production costs.
Incumbent President Gbagbo insists that he won the poll and retains control of state institutions, including the ports from which cocoa exporters operate.
But crumbling ports, railways and highways hobble exporters with needless costs and delays.
Additional value-added tax rebates for exporters are also likely, given that textile exporters have already received them.
Mongolia, which is also handily close to China, and Mozambique could join Australia, South Africa and Colombia as big exporters.
"as a result of the financial crisis in asia, California's exports to the region are expected to decrease as exporters shift their attention to markets in Latin america and Europe."
In the case of steel and some other products, exporters have accelerated sales overseas in recent months to beat government cuts to export tax rebates for energy-intensive products.
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