Word: exportable
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That is good news for the entire world. Even with the U.S. well into its recovery, the slump in Japan and Europe has dragged down the global economy, hurting demand for raw materials and other export goods from developing countries. But last month the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.) reported that it was revising upward its 1994 growth estimates for Germany, the powerhouse of the European economic engine, from 0.8% annually to 1.8%. The organization now predicts the Japanese economy will expand 0.8% in 1994 -- last year it grew 0.1% -- and the European Union 1.9%, vs. a drop...
...Three auto exports from the U.S. and Canada to Mexico for the first quarter reached 9,925 units, compared with 9,479 exported during all of 1993. Chrysler, Ford and GM are expecting to export a combined 55,000 cars and trucks to Mexico...
...line by denouncing the military-installed puppet government of President Emile Jonassaint. Now they watch as their companies spiral toward ruin. The day before the embargo took effect, Georges Barau Sassine stood above his factory floor as 430 employees sewed the last shipment of Disney children's wear for export to the U.S. "We're all closed," he declared as he popped tablets for an upset stomach. "They're destroying those of us who give jobs. It's so absurd...
Human-rights organizations, however, are leaning hard on Clinton to be tough. They point to China's continued export of goods made with prison labor: under Clinton's own Executive Order, Beijing must stop that to retain MFN. Harry Wu, a former Chinese political prisoner, showed Congress tapes of prisoners at forced labor that he had secretly filmed on a five-week trip this year. Says Wu: "Fifty percent of Chinese rubber products come from chemical factories that employ forced labor." Human Rights Watch/Asia says latex gloves used by doctors were exported as recently as last January only after being...
...have to get the Chinese on board, and they will not come on board without settling a whole host of other issues so that they become part of the world management team for peace, stability, progress. One day you hammer them for human rights, the second day for the export of prison-produced goods. The third day for something else, and the fourth day you tell them: We are friends, so help me settle this...