Thanks to the Emergence of China as a Major Exporting

question 47

True/False

Thanks to the emergence of China as a major exporting nation, Japan, Canada, the European Union, and the United States accounted for just 49.2 percent of the world's merchandise exports in 2017.

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Normal Profit

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