Word: exportability
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...actual percentage of truly liberal trade among European countries and between them and the rest of the world has declined. After eliminating the products for which commerce is restricted, not much is left for free trade. The export or import of most agricultural products, textiles, synthetic fibers, clothing, shoes, steel and automobiles are now limited in some way. And restraints in one country beget restraints in another. No sooner had Washington pressured the Japanese into limiting the number of cars shipped to the U.S. than the Europeans, who already control their auto imports from Japan, were demanding still tougher restraints...
...fact, the Aeroflot shipment contained only nonembargoed items: common air navigation equipment, radiation measurement devices and spare parts for a fertilizer factory. But the incident pointed up the confusion surrounding the policy on American exports to the Soviet Union, which were virtually halted after the invasion of Afghanistan 17 months ago. Although the embargo of the shipment of grain and phosphates was lifted in April, the ban on the export of high-technology goods remains theoretically in force. The American action has cut off the sale of about $150 million in exports, primarily of computers, to the Soviets...
Since 1949 most Western European nations and Japan have kept a close eye on the sale of high-technology goods to Communist nations through an obscure NATO affiliate, the Coordinating Committee on Export Controls. Known as CoCom, the agency is run by a small staff out of a Paris office that is inconspicuously wedged between a hair salon and a bank. Though CoCom has no official power to ban sales, its recommendations are generally followed. After the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. stepped up pressure on its allies and CoCom to halt technology exports to the Soviet Union. But while...
...East China Sea and then inexplicably left it to sink and two crew members to die. The resolution of a third and longer-standing difference between the two nations was hammered out less than a week before Suzuki's visit, when Japan reluctantly agreed to limit the export of its automobiles to the U.S. for at least two years...
...agreement came only after some last-minute shuttle diplomacy across the Pacific. Japanese automakers were firmly opposed to any export reductions, and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry was having little luck bringing them into line. But after a Tokyo dinner of shredded sea eel soup and fried abalone, U.S. Trade Representative William Brock and Minister of Trade Rokusuke Tanaka began moving toward an agreement...