The colony nearly failed until tobacco emerged as a profitable export, grown primarily by indentured servants.

The venom of the jungle serpents was one of the Company's most profitable exports.

"Now our most profitable export is people."

It was, however, opposed by the timber industry, who fear that land producing profitable exports may become used for low-income domestic biofuel production.

Hence cheap rocket fuel could become the Moon's first profitable export.

Throughout the country one sees the wrecks of what in the Communist years was an important branch of profitable exports.

Opium was the Great Britain's most profitable export to China during the 19th century.

His dream was to find gold, but tobacco was the chief profitable export.

In a narrow sense, cotton is Australia's second most profitable agricultural export, after wheat.

Suddenly the bad boy of the Movida was his country's most profitable cultural export.