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To: dennisw

We have a very large chemical company that exports cigarette filter tow and plastics all over the world. They maintain a very large container pool. They have very very large sales to China

We have a GE world distribution center that exports many product lines but especially transformers and circuit breakers. We have a bearing distribution center that distributes the products of several bearing manufacturers throughout the Western hemisphere.

We have very good banks with international trade expertise.

we have a company that manufactures bladders used in tire manufacture. We have the primary offices and plants of the largest flat glass manufacturer in the country.

These are but the tip of the industrial export iceberg.Tennessee exporters are all over. I call on many and business is very good.

Out west, the port of Memphis moves lots of cotton and other ag products. Fedex is a large international player and is in Memphis.

In days gone by, my small company existed for 20 years fabricating and exporting architectural products to Saudi Arabia and US government projects out of the country. I was able to do so largely because of the strong export and banking community locally.


50 posted on 02/09/2008 10:23:06 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . "You can't be that way"......... Clint)
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To: bert

Tennessee exports a lot to foreign markets but it imports more even a lot more


58 posted on 02/09/2008 12:14:00 PM PST by dennisw (Never bet on Islam!)
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To: bert
Few would guess the size of this activity in our state. Because Tennessee does not front an ocean, it is easy to underestimate how much international trade travels through this state. Many people are not aware that this state contains four international port cities Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, and Nashville, as well as a special Federal Express port in Memphis. And the value of the goods going through these ports may surprise you. In 1995, $3.859 billion of merchandise, involving over 100 countries, went through Tennessee ports. At a shade under $2 billion through June, 1996 figures will likely exceed that. As with most of the U.S., the bulk of this trade is imports. In 1995, imports into Tennessee ports ran better than $2.3 billion ahead of exports. The state port's "trade deficit" however, has markedly slimmed in 1996, though it is still in the

1996 Trade "Balance" of Products Through Tennessee (in $millions)


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neighborhood of $900 million. To put the size and importance of this flow of trade in perspective, if international trade were to be considered as its own economic sector, it would rate as seventh largest of the state's twenty major industries based on value of shipments.

The range of the products being shipped through these ports is vast. Automobile parts, aircraft parts, computer and office machinery parts, and apparel are some of the leading products moving through the state's international gateways, but products from 184 different SITC industry codes were exported from Memphis alone over the last year.

http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/global/oldissues/fall96/p1.html

 

59 posted on 02/09/2008 12:14:35 PM PST by dennisw (Never bet on Islam!)
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