Word: exportability
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...with the U.S. ? watch out for men from the East bearing gifts. China's President Jiang Zemin, whose upcoming state visit to Washington has been a source of some controversy, is planning to send an advance party of trade delegates to America next week ? with billions of dollars in export deals in their pockets...
...when Japan's cargo ships are barred from U.S. ports while its negotiators haggle over $4 million in fines, news of China's generosity will come as a refreshing change to export-hungry businesses. But could this deal be just a little too sweet...
China's extensive laogai ("reform through labor") political prison camp system more than rivals the horrors of the Soviet gulags. Not only does China use forced prisoner labor for megalomanical domestic infrastructure projects, the political prisoner population is also used as slave labor for the export market, producing products that range from mineral water to watchbands to rosaries to artificial Christmas trees, according to the Sept. 29 Weekly Standard...
Chan said that students are increasingly more interested in Asian markets, and since Singapore is the eighth largest export market of the United States, it functions as "the gateway to Southeast Asia," for the global market," she said...
...overseas computer market is where the biggest growth lies," says TIME San Francisco bureau chief David Jackson. "Intel has made the overseas market its number one target, with half their sales coming from outside the United States." The thinking behind the export drive is that since most foreign customers are starting from scratch rather than buying upgrades, why leave yesterday's models to languish on American shelves when they can be flogged overseas...