sentences: meanwhile, exports were expected to grow but would soften somewhat due partly to (1) the slowdown in china’s production of electronics, following prior acceleration, which might affect exports of thailand that was part of the supply chain, (2) slowing rubber exports to china as the country pared down its elevated rubber stock and as rubber prices started to decline, and (3) structural difficulties faced by exporters in some industries, in particular automotive given production capacity expansion currently underway in regional countries.