экспорт концентрируется

English translation: exports are concentrated

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Russian term or phrase:экспорт концентрируется
English translation:exports are concentrated
Entered by: Rachel Douglas

18:53 Jan 30, 2018
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Economics
Russian term or phrase: экспорт концентрируется
Экспорт стран Центральной и Восточной Европы концентрируется в основном на рынках европейского региона....наибольшая доля экспорта в страны СНГ приходилась на Польшу....

Меня интересует "экспорт" мы употребляем во множественном или единственном? По тексту много фраз с этим словом, не везде можно обойти. Вопрос: exports are или export is?
Strel
Local time: 11:14
exports are concentrated
Explanation:
OK, so dictionaries will tell you that "exports" are the individually exported goods, while "export" is a collective singular. But that's not what the normal usage is. Plural "exports" is routinely used to mean the "total exports" or "export activity" of a country, cases in which Russian uses the singular.

In your case:
"Central and East European countries' exports are concentrated mainly in European markets.... Poland was the destination of the greatest share of CIS-country exports."

There is no need for a circumlocution.

If you don't want to take my word for it, here are a couple of examples.

"Over one-third of Spanish exports are in industrial intermediate products"
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_en/co...

"U.S. exports to Italy are concentrated in high-value sectors such as pharmaceutical products"
https://www.export.gov/article?series=a0pt0000000PAu5AAG&typ...

"Although most exports and imports are concentrated in a narrow bandwidth of countries"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/ho...
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Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 04:14
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2[Central and Eastern European countries] predominantly export their goods to...
Kirill Ivanovskiy
4 +1the export business of ....... countries focuses primarily (or mainly) on the markets of the .....
Ellen Kraus
4 +1exports are concentrated
Rachel Douglas


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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
[Central and Eastern European countries] predominantly export their goods to...


Explanation:
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Kirill Ivanovskiy
Russian Federation
Local time: 11:14
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.: This works! Active voice always sounds good.
1 hr
  -> Thank you, Frank!

agree  Yevgeniya Druzhinina
1 day 2 hrs
  -> Евгения, спасибо!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
the export business of ....... countries focuses primarily (or mainly) on the markets of the .....


Explanation:
just one more option

Ellen Kraus
Austria
Local time: 09:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.: I like focuses, in particular.
44 mins
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
exports are concentrated


Explanation:
OK, so dictionaries will tell you that "exports" are the individually exported goods, while "export" is a collective singular. But that's not what the normal usage is. Plural "exports" is routinely used to mean the "total exports" or "export activity" of a country, cases in which Russian uses the singular.

In your case:
"Central and East European countries' exports are concentrated mainly in European markets.... Poland was the destination of the greatest share of CIS-country exports."

There is no need for a circumlocution.

If you don't want to take my word for it, here are a couple of examples.

"Over one-third of Spanish exports are in industrial intermediate products"
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_en/co...

"U.S. exports to Italy are concentrated in high-value sectors such as pharmaceutical products"
https://www.export.gov/article?series=a0pt0000000PAu5AAG&typ...

"Although most exports and imports are concentrated in a narrow bandwidth of countries"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/ho...

Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 04:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 64
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vladyslav Golovaty
8 hrs
  -> Thanks, Vladys.
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