Word: exportability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure on their neighbors to get either Europe-wide political support against the Arabs or some kind of oil-sharing agreement to prevent a collapse of the Dutch economy. At first the Dutch had merely hinted they might cut off supplies of natural gas, 41% of which they export mainly to West Germany, Belgium and France. Last week, at a meeting of the European Economic Community Foreign Ministers in Copenhagen, the threat was made explicit...
...shortages become more severe, talk of export restrictions has begun to crop up. Georgia Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge is demanding controls on all commodity exports because of the cotton crisis. The U.S. learned to its sorrow earlier this year that controls on individual commodities lead to problems in other areas. When the Government slapped controls on exports of soybeans in June, foreign buyers simply put their money instead into related U.S. commodities, like peanuts and alfalfa, whose exports then had to be controlled too. A blanket program on all exports would be patently unacceptable to the Administration, which believes that...
Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to incorporate the expansion of foreign markets into his plans for recovery. A trade agreement program was developed to improve the American position in foreign markets relative to the other powers. The Export-Import Bank was created for loans to foreign countries which usually had to purchase U.S. goods only. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was authorized to help the foreign operations of domestic corporations...
Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the domination of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the partition of all the territories of the globe among the great capitalist powers has been completed. --V.I. Lenin...
...course the energy crisis, if there really is one, is all about oil, gas, sulfur contents, Arab export embargos and the like. At least that is what President Nixon would have us believe. Nixon would be the last one to suggest that the fuel deficit has anything to do with the style of life in this country, the frenzied way we consume power and energy, the structure of the oil companies or the foreign policy that produced the Arabs' oil embargo policy...