Word: embargoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contained only nonembargoed items: common air navigation equipment, radiation measurement devices and spare parts for a fertilizer factory. But the incident pointed up the confusion surrounding the policy on American exports to the Soviet Union, which were virtually halted after the invasion of Afghanistan 17 months ago. Although the embargo of the shipment of grain and phosphates was lifted in April, the ban on the export of high-technology goods remains theoretically in force. The American action has cut off the sale of about $150 million in exports, primarily of computers, to the Soviets...
...Novolipetsk. But Caterpillar was granted approval late last year to supply pipelaying equipment used in building the 3,000-mile Yamal Peninsula natural gas pipeline. A semiconductor chip that U.S. companies cannot sell to the Soviets has been licensed for production in Brazil, which is not bound by the embargo. The microchip, in fact, is a component in a popular computer game that is for sale in Western European toy stores. Says Samuel Pisar, a Paris-based international trade expert: "The U.S. and its Western allies have simply never formulated a consistent policy on exports of technology to the Soviets...
...inconsistent enforcement of the Western trade embargo has naturally left U.S. businessmen confused. Says Sperry Corp. Chairman J. Paul Lyet, whose company has sold computers under Government license to the Soviets: "We never knew what Government policy was under the previous Administration...
President Reagan has lifted the grain embargo on the Soviet Union [May 4]. Never let it be said that America allowed a single Soviet soldier in Afghanistan to go hungry, or deprived the Soviet army on the Polish border of its daily bread...
...President was right in lifting the gram embargo. It was insignificant as long as other wheat-producing countries did not rally behind the U.S. The embargo only increased the grain sales of other nations and drove down the price of U.S. wheat. Lifting the embargo showed that Reagan lives up to his word...