China surpasses Germany as the world’s largest exporter

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China has become the world's largest exporter surpassing Germany, the World Trade Organization has said. China displaced Germany, which held the No.1 slot since 2003, by a slim margin of 100 million US dollars after exporting goods worth 521.7 billion USD in the first half of 2009. Read full article

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There is a vast diffecrence between the German and the Chinese exports. While the German products are usually of superb quality both in design and craftmanship, the Chinese products are shoddy and made of low quality materials. Further, Germany designs some of the most advanced products in the world. The Chinese limit themselves to assembling products designed elsewhere or, more often, to produce low quality copies of those products. I would rather buy a German product knowing that it is well designed and will last a long time.
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