Last Friday's trade report showed that exports are booming, buoyed by a weaker dollar.

Brazilian exports are booming, creating a new generation of tycoons.

American exports, especially of high-tech gear, are booming.

With a weak currency and feeble domestic demand, exports are booming.

Nevertheless, Taiwan's exports to the mainland are booming.

But last year, exports boomed again, to more than 300 million tons, because China's 6,000-plus small, antiquated crushing plants cannot keep pace with growing demand.

A better harvest last summer and autumn has reversed the rise in food prices while exports have boomed.

Russian exports have boomed because the fallen ruble has made them exceptionally cheap while economic growth elsewhere has driven up demand.

And exports are booming.

It expects a smaller invisibles surplus than before, but the forecasters are a lot more optimistic about visible trade: exports are booming.