Word: exportability
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Nonetheless, the State Department reportedly has been cooking up a compromise in which the U.S. would export specialty beef products, including tongue and liver, that conform to E.C. standards. Secretary of State James Baker may offer such terms this week when he makes a diplomatic tour of European capitals...
Theoretically, the business of taking ivory from animals alive or dead is highly regulated and ostensibly restricted by African governments. And under an international convention, there is a quota system that puts limits on the number of tusks each country can export...
...trouble getting the ivory out of Africa. Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi has reportedly financed his insurrection with ivory taken from more than 100,000 elephants. Some countries seem to be conduits for the illegal trade. With roughly 4,500 elephants of its own, Somalia has still managed to export tusks from an estimated 13,800 elephants in the past three years, evidence that the country has been providing false documents for ivory poached elsewhere. In response, the U.S. is expected this week to announce a ban on imports of Somalian ivory...
...clear that at least one American company has helped spread the deadly weapons. After Customs Service agents accused Baltimore-based Alcolac International, Inc., of illegally shipping hundreds of tons of thiodiglycol, a solvent that can be used in making mustard gas, the firm agreed to plead guilty to violating export laws. Prosecutors believe the chemical shipments eventually arrived in Iraq and Iran...
...Shattuck report addresses only half the problem that Bush must face in revitalizing the nation's economy. If the United States is to compete effectively in the world market, it must, at the same time as it loosens the classification and export control strictures, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights...