exporting vs commerce

exporting and commerce both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
exporting	Yes	No	No	No
commerce	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, commerce is a hypernym of exporting; that is, commerce is a word with a broader meaning than exporting:

exporting: the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
commerce: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

Other hypernyms of exporting include commercialism, mercantilism.

exporting (noun)	commerce (noun)
the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country	transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
	social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.