Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EXPORTERS will get help from the Government to lure new accounts. The Export-Import Bank set up a credit plan so that exporters can give foreign customers up to five years to pay for agricultural and industrial capital goods...
FARM SURPLUSES will soon be cut by the export program passed by Congress. President Eisenhower authorized the Agriculture Department to sell $700 million of food abroad at cut-rate prices, the Foreign Operations Administration to give away up to $300 million in surpluses to friendly nations in need...
...Quota goods-items on which shipments must stop after a certain export level is reached-were reduced from 90 to 20 (to which number the strategic items previously banned altogether will be added). Examples of items released from quota: welding equipment, tungsten...
RUSSIA'S TRADE with the West will pick up. Under British pressure, 15 nations (including the U.S.) have agreed to lift export controls on crude and diesel oils, light machine tools, farm tractors, copper wire, air conditioners, mica, tungsten, some 150 other products. Still under embargo: 170 strategic items, including weapons, uranium and airplanes...
Fruits of Folly. Inflation and other consequences of imprudence have caused Japan to spend too much for imports, much more than her high-priced exports can balance. (A Japanese refrigerator sells for around $500.) But not all of her troubles are the fruits of postwar folly. Before she lost her empire in the war, she got rice from Korea, wheat from Manchuria. Now she must import $400 million in food annually to feed her people. Her own rice crop last year was the poorest in 60 years. She has no coking coal of her own; her prewar source of supply...