1.   Exports are lower, household spending is weakening and businesses show signs of losing faith in their investment plans.

2.   Its main exports were salt and wine.

3.   Now coal exports are smaller and these docks are less busy.

4.   Their main exports are textiles, especially silk and cotton.

5.   Commercial fishing has recently been developed and the export of prawns is the principal foreign exchange earner.

6.   It also warned that exports were still too dependent on copper.

7.   Exports per employee are six times the average for all UK manufacturing industries.

8.   Illegal exports of fish are also on the increase, while fishing for research purposes has been abused.

9.   A CBI survey out today shows British exports to Europe are at their lowest level since April.