Shinseki was right with the argument.

The 109th Air National Guard flew the most recent shipment of ice back to the coast of Antarctica, where it was boarded onto a freighter, shipped across the tropics to California, unloaded, put on a truck, driven across the desert to the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, where, as we speak, scientists are now slicing this material up for samples, for analysis, to be distributed to the laboratories around the country and in Europe.

This aircraft company deals with freight only.

Just think for a moment of the trillions of parts and finished goods moving cheaply around the world every second, a small portion by air, but most by sea.

Imports exceeded exports last year.

Everything's on its way, Doctor.

He's an exporter, not an importer.

Well, in business, that's certainly not the way we would go about it.

Transport in five minutes.

It's talking about how, thanks to air transport, we've lost the sense of 'season' for foodstuffs.

Japan's exports exceeded imports by 77.8 billion in 1998.

The girl is sure to cry This man needs a blood transfusion.

In 2008, two thirds of America's oil was imported.

Pier 1 imports.

Cue the truck.

We import raw materials and export the finished products.

Japan imports raw materials from China and exports finished products to it.

A blood transfusion is necessary.

I use them for smuggling.

The first transport is away. The first transport is away.

The UK is a net food importer by a long shot, so this is a... This is a very perilous situation.

So here's what we did.

It will replace or be able to be used for that.

So now they're in it together.

So this is us landing on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Foreign trade consists of a two way flow of commodities export and import.

So what did they do? They taxed the import.

Although oil only generates 1.6 of U.S. electricity, it powers 96 of all transportation.

Imported cars are in strong demand.

First, extractive industry.

It's the history of what we eat today.

Put that aside.

It could be smugglers...

There are other services like how we make fertilizer, or how we do air transport, where the rooms for improvement are far, far less.

The trade balance registered a surplus of 76 billion, with exports reaching 314 billion and imports 238 billion.

The export business isn't doing well.

The exports increased by 30 billion dollars.

The goods were transported by ship.

Well, because there's a lot at stake.

Import goods are subject to high taxes.

The export of weapons was prohibited.

The market was flooded with imports.

That's why it's so important.

They ended up swimming through ballast water that had oil in it.

I've got a report here on some smuggling going on down in Hong Kong.