Sentences with phrase «imported than a decade»

Yet because of increased consumption masses more chicken is imported than a decade ago, when nearly all chicken was domestically produced.

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It banned waste imports more than a decade ago.

As seen in the chart below from Westpac Bank, China's trade surplus with the US has ballooned over the past decade as exports to the US grew substantially faster than imports heading in the other direction.

What's more, the U.S. has over the last decade consistently imported more steel than it has exported.

According to its website, LOOP has received more than 12 billion barrels of oil from foreign and domestic sources over the past three decades, but as an imports - only facility, it's never been used to load an export cargo — until now.

We are one of the leading export, import and indenting company in Bangladesh, we are in this trade for more than a decade.

The UK's wine trade has more than doubled in the last decade and become a key hub for importing and distributing to 124 countries across the globe.

Steve has more than two decades experience, beginning with Diageo - predecessor Heublein where he managed Smirnoff and Finlandia vodkas and worked on the imported wine portfolio.

We, union exports are providing services in import and export market since last more than 2 decades, our core business in exports is Home Textile, further in import sectors we work with few other products as well, but most of...

According to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service database, over the past decade Americans imported more than 21,000 giraffe bone carvings, more than 3,000 skin pieces and 3,744 hunting trophies.

In Guangzhou, which has been an export powerhouse in terms of manufactured goods since the launch of China's market - oriented reforms more than three decades ago, academic leaders are ramping up campaigns to «import» scholars who can help shape the transition to a knowledge - based economy.

A decade earlier, in something resembling a transatlantic cultural - exchange programme, Jean - Pierre Melville imported Howard Hawks» value - system for a series of cooler - than - thou genre distillations.

Sales of «Chevrolet imports» peaked at 196,777 in calendar 1994, according to «The Standard Catalogue,» but that was more than a decade before Chevy had any decent homegrown small cars it could upsell to customers who came in to look at the Geos.

The ex-Suzuki boss also confirmed that the Alpine A110's lack of side airbags would limit imports of the relaunched brand's first road car in more than two decades to just 100 units per year.

When you combine all these factors with a software that doesn't allow any imports, you've got a tax software system that is more than a decade behind the times.

And for the first time in more than a decade, oil we imported accounted for less than half of the liquid fuel we consumed.

In one scenario painted by the Deutsche Bank team led by chief economist Jun Ma, China's imports of thermal coal would cease by 2017, nearly a decade earlier than most forecasts, and coal consumption would fall from 68 per cent of total energy consumption to 32 per cent by 2030.

Moreover, it's something that can be mined and used within the U.S. Even though the country imports millions of short tons of coal per year, the rate has dropped dramatically in the last decade, from more than 34.5 million tons in 2006 to just 9.6 million tons in 2015.

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The gift that is American energy is seen in some key numbers: domestic crude oil production reaching more than 9 million barrels per day last month, the highest level in more than two decades, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA); total U.S. net imports of energy as a share of energy consumption falling to their lowest level in nearly 30 years during the first six months of this year; gasoline prices dropping to an average of $ 2.47 per gallon last week, their lowest point since May 2009, according to the Lundberg Survey Inc..

The second part of Clinton's comment first: Increased domestic oil production has lowered imports and made the United States more energy self - sufficient than it has been in two decades.

Last week I noted how, at the end of 2013, the United States accomplished something it hadn't been able to do in two decades: The U.S. actually produced more oil than it imported.

The only hope left, after more than a decade of policy making under a condition of almost unanimous cross-party consensus, and the exclusion of all criticism from public and political debate, was to burn forests, imported from America.

For the first time in decades, the nation's treasured trade surplus is gone, eroded by soaring imports of fossil fuels needed to replace the 30 percent of the nation's electricity once supplied by more than 50 nuclear reactors idled since last March's disaster.

Paul Reed Smith built his first guitar in 1975, and within a decade opened a factory and launched a company that now builds more than 1,100 guitars per month in the United States and imports 2,500 more from Korea.