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...economy with U.S. commercial vigor will face deep-rooted obstacles. Many Americans believe that helping strengthen the Soviet Union could damage U.S. interests. And because of Western security concerns, many U.S. commercial technologies will remain off limits to ventures with the Soviets. The Paris-based Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, for example, restricts exports of equipment and processes to the East bloc that might be used in military applications. Under COCOM rules, Western firms cannot do business with the Soviet Union in such areas as nuclear energy, high-speed computers and aircraft components. Last week four top executives...
...Soviet Union, with its population of 282 million, represents by far the most tempting future marketplace in the East bloc, even though Soviet and U.S. business interests still conflict in many ways. The Soviets are primarily interested in producing goods that they can export to the West in exchange for hard currency. They hope to find an American partner, for instance, to manufacture their designer fashions, some of which were shown at the Dallas Apparel Mart in March. But like the clothes, many of the products they want to make are already produced in abundant quantities elsewhere. Meanwhile, their Western...
...they are less certain about precisely how far the dollar should fall. The major industrial countries are reluctant to allow any additional dip in the dollar. The U.S. knows that a falling greenback could bring rising inflation and interest rates, while America's trading partners are worried about their export industries. Just before the trade report was released last week, finance ministers from the Group of Seven -- the U.S., Britain, West Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Italy -- reaffirmed their desire to stabilize currency markets. "A further decline or rise in the dollar to an extent that becomes destabilizing . . . could...
Reagan's advisers "see it as absolutely necessary to recover market share for their own individual businesses and for America's economic health," Coddington says. "That whole system [of export controls] has been vigorously opposed by people in the Commerce Department...
Shattuck's March 31 report calls on the next President to "signal a shift in policy" by issuing an executive order within its first 100 days loosening the classification and export control strictures. The 41 st President's agenda should be premised on "principles that justify the revision of the existing system of controls," the report says...