Word: exportability
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...take a look at nearly whatever they wanted to in our light-truck plants." Now the Japanese are pushing to improve sales through low prices. Though they face a 25% import duty imposed in 1980, they are unfettered by the quotas that restrict the number of cars they can export to the U.S. A Mazda Sundowner B-2000 can be bought for $5,795. The lowest-cost American-made pickup is the Chevrolet...
Although the indication in this case is that the plant's standards were equivalent to those in force in the United States, such evenhanded treatment is not always the case. In many instances, including the sale of pesticides, contraceptives, and potential carcinogens, United States firms export technologies that have been banned in this country. In addition, exploitative labor practices that could not escape the watchful eye of American unions and labor advocates find more fertile ground amid the vast unemployment of the Third World...
...subsidies veterans' benefits, civil service retirement programs and grants to states and localities for such purposes as education and urban development. A slew of programs and agencies-some of debatable value, some of remarkable worth-would be consigned to oblivion: the Job Corps, the Small Business Administration, the Export-Import Bank, subsidies to Amtrak. Also, the Reaganauts are considering a genuine freeze on cost of living increases in many benefit programs other than Social Security...
...kinds of changes Ethiopia must under go are much clearer than the mechanisms for effecting those changes. The government certainly must spend money on agriculture development and try to balance food crops against cash crops raised for export more effectively...
Although it did not permanently damage Digital's position, the temporary license suspension has prompted manufacturers to take a close look at their own responsibilities. While businesses might previously have looked the other way to turn a quick sale with unauthorized export firms, they now reject those offers out of hand. "We simply don't do business with those companies," says Ganaghan. We just comply with the law and maintain a very low profile says Michael Ferrante, a Corporate Public Relations Specialist with Wang Computers. The nature of corporate Public Relations Specialist with Wang Computers. The nature of corporate compliance...