alt Hacker News> A country can be both an exporter and importer of sand.
That's pretty normal in general. Eg Germany both imports and exports a lot of cars.
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mcculley • 10/02/2024
It is not surprising to me that products which have lots of differentiation are both imported and exported. It was surprising to me that something I thought of as a commodity goes in both directions.
My favorite example of this is trucks transporting Finnish bottled water to France and then bringing French bottled water back.