Word: exportability
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...Administration action is aimed primarily at Italy, whose exports to the U.S. have zoomed from 10 million lbs. in 1975 to 110 million lbs. last year. At that rate, the U.S. industry contends, Italian pasta could account for 20% of the $1.3 billion U.S. market by 1988 or 1989. American manufacturers claim that European pastamakers compete unfairly in this country because they receive export subsidies from their governments...
...feds are trying to crack down, however. A bureaucratic struggle between free traders in the Commerce Department and Pentagon officials appalled by high-tech transfer has been resolved by the Reagan Administration in favor of tougher export controls. The military won the right to review export licenses, and has blocked sales like the shipment of machinery to test concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined...
French arms sales are booming today. Following a decline in 1983, export orders more than doubled last year, to about $6.66 billion, a record, and this year's orders show promise. "The government's instructions to the defense sector are sell, sell, sell," says a Western diplomat. France is now the world's third largest arms dealer, behind the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...Administration sensitivity and decreased restrictions on the publication of work done on government contracts has also been encouraging to Shattuck. Shattuck's report on the matter proved a rallying point for protest in the educational community, which in turn led to an amendment to the Export Control Act. That act had been used to restrict the publication of unclassified technological information on the grounds that the exporting of many kinds of technical capability to enemy countries violated the law. The recent amendment specifically exempts academic institutions from the act's purview...
...progress of Project 706 has drawn attention to the gaps that have all along existed on the nonproliferation front. One of the major problems has been lack of effective agreement among suppliers about what technologies are safe to export, and under what circumstances. Following India's 1974 test blast, the U.S. and six other countries agreed on the need for tight export controls on sensitive nuclear equipment. High on the "trigger list" was plutonium-reprocessing and uranium- enrichment technology. The supplier group has since expanded to 21 countries...