export-oriented

Made for abroad

Export-oriented describes an economic strategy or business focused on producing goods for sale to foreign markets rather than domestic consumption.

Countries with export-oriented economies prioritize manufacturing for international trade: Japan's export-oriented growth model transformed its postwar economy.

The term often appears in discussions of development policy and trade balance.

manufacturing

factories

Industrial production facilities

electronics · garments · processing · maquiladoras · supply-chain · outsourcing · components · mass-production · low-cost · shipping

trade

manufacturing

Industrial product creation

commodities · quotas · customs · mercantilism · protectionism · liberalization · globalization · competitiveness · devaluation · subsidies

economic-policy

FDI

International business capital infusion

IMF · neoliberalism · outward-looking · state-led · privatization

agriculture

plantations

Large-scale farming operations

cocoa · palm-oil · rubber · bananas · sugar · cotton · tea · spices · agribusiness · farmland

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market direction

export-orientedinward-looking

Focused on oneself

protectionist · autarkic · autarchic · self-sufficient · isolationist

Family

export, oriented, exports, exporter, exporters, exported, exporting, exportation, orient

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