Word: exportability
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...Clinton Administration scrapped virtually all export controls on telecommunications equipment and computers to Russia, Eastern Europe and China. The restrictions were imposed during the cold war; lifting them is expected to generate as much as $150 billion in trade over the next 10 years...
...also one of sordid contrasts, but the people who live there and the thousands moving in are optimistic. "This is the best of two worlds," says Fadia Barraza, a university freshman in Juarez. "Life gets steadily better." At the maquilas, the sprawling assembly plants that produce goods for export to the U.S., parking lots filled with employees' cars suggest she is right...
...which gathers intelligence for national security purposes by eavesdropping on overseas phone calls and cables, did everything in its power to make sure nobody had a code that it couldn't break. It kept tight reins on the "keys" used to translate coded text into plain text, prohibiting the export of secret codes under U.S. munitions laws and ensuring that the encryption scheme used by business -- the so-called Digital Encryption Standard -- was weak enough that NSA supercomputers could cut through it like butter...
Only now do we hear, for example, that Japan's export-oriented trade policy has caused Japanese consumers to suffer excruciatingly high prices for basic foodstuffs, or that (as Irwin Seltzer has noted in Commentary) a Japanese worker of average income is 20 times more likely to be without indoor toilet facilities than is a poor American...
Perhaps the most vexing potential deal breaker was the films, TV and music that dominate Europe's cinemas and airwaves and are America's second biggest export. France fought to have audiovisual services excluded altogether but appears ready to settle for retaining the European Community's airtime quotas against U.S. TV shows. "We feel that we have given the French enough to satisfy them on agriculture," said a senior Washington official and "now it's their turn to give on the audiovisual agreement." Once negotiators get a GATT, the U.S. Congress has until April 15 to approve the deal...