What happened
Background and earlier position
In external-sector analysis, export growth and export diversification are interpreted through product-wise contributions. Product groups closely tied to commodity markets, such as energy-linked categories, can move with global price and demand cycles, which can also shift diversification indicators over shorter periods.
What changed now
The presentation changes the reader’s order of reasoning by placing petroleum products at the centre of the explanation for merchandise export growth, and then asking readers to interpret export diversification with commodity-driven factors in mind before looking at the detailed charts.
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