Comm. [f. prec.]
1. That which is exported; an exported article. Also, the amount exported.
1690. Child, Disc. Trade (ed. 4), 167. The Exports were more in value than the Imports.
1735. Berkeley, Querist, § 179. Schedules of our Trade, containing an Account of the Imports and Exports of the foregoing Year.
1796. Burke, Regic. Peace, i. Wks. VIII. 155. Our commerce, the imports and exports of the nation.
1821. J. Q. Adams, in C. Davies, Metric Syst., III. (1871), 113. In the year 1354 the balance of exports above the imports was of more than 250,000 pounds.
2. The action of exporting, exportation; an instance of this. (Not in Johnson or Todd. First in Webster 1864.)
1804. Colebrooke, Husb. & Comm. Bengal (1806), 192. Buffalo’s horns might also become an article of export.
1824. Ld. Harewood, in Bischoff, Woollen Manuf., II. 48. Allowing the free export of British wool.
1874. Green, Short Hist., viii. 476. He gave license for the export of arms to Spain.
3. attrib. In senses: Of, pertaining to, concerned with or adapted for, exportation; as export-capacity, -demand, -goods (specified, as e.g. export-yarns), -direction, -merchant, (-book-seller, -clothier, etc.), -trade; export bill, a bill drawn against or for the value of exported goods; export duty, a duty paid on exported goods.
1861. Goschen, For. Exch., 39. Buying-up and remitting the *export-bills as soon as the goods have been shipped.
1885. Bookseller, 5 March, 312, Advt., Wholesale and *export booksellers.
1888. Daily News, 19 Nov., 2/7. The *export demand is well maintained for furs, skins, and hairs.
1817. F. Robinson, in Parl. Deb., 565. The bill … to diminish the *export duty on the smaller sorts of coal.
1845. McCulloch, Taxation, II. v. (1852), 204. Great caution is usually required in imposing export duties.
1795. Ld. Auckland, Corr., III. 295. The naval preparations oblige us to suspend the *export trade which is a check to manufactures.
1831. Sir J. Sinclair, Corr., II. 307. The Emperor and his Ministers were ignorant that there existed any advantageous export trade.
1889. Daily News, 11 Dec., 2/7. *Export yarns were a shade better.
