Export, export of goods and other material values from one country for sales on foreign markets. Among the objects of export are items manufactured in the country, goods which have been imported from abroad and then processed, and sometimes goods coming from other countries which have not been processed (re-export). Export, just like import, is brought about by the development of commodity production, the international capitalist division of labour (see Division of Labour, Capitalist International) or the international socialist division of labour (see Division of Labour, Socialist International). The customs statistics of most countries, depending on how they are tabulated generally, subdivides commodity export into special export, which includes domestically produced commodities or foreign goods at least partially processed and exported to other countries, and general export, which also includes transit goods, i. e. foreign goods imported into the given country and then exported without processing.