Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United Nations needs to understand that sanctions don't work with countries that don't have anything to export but cheap shoes and hapless refugees...
Economically, the policy of revoking China's MFN would be deleterious both to the U.S. and to China. This policy would involve raising the average tariffs on Chinese goods by 5 to 10 times, which, according to a study by the World Bank, would reduce Chinese exports to the US between 42% and 96%. Some estimate that such a reduction could cost China up to $10 billion in annual exports to the U.S., and millions of jobs in export industries. China would surely retaliate, and this would hurt...
...lower trade barriers worldwide. Those reflect a presidential focus on economic policy, international as well as domestic, so intense as to prompt Uwe Nerlich, deputy director of the Institute for Policy and Security in Germany, to grumble that Clinton's foreign policy seems mainly to be "a national export policy...
...America's moral principles and cripple Chinese-American commerce, which last year totaled almost $40 billion. Gone in the process would probably be any chance of enlisting Beijing's help in rolling back North Korea's nuclear-weapons program. Gone too would be approximately 200,000 high-paying U.S. export jobs, which is why Treasury, Commerce and White House economic officials favor retaining...
...Nanchang Aircraft, a Chinese government-owned manufacturer. Nanchang said it needed the engines for a light military jet trainer, the K-8, that was destined to be sold abroad. In November 1991, the U.S. Commerce Department, which had been moving aggressively to promote American trade by cutting through export barriers, quietly dropped national security controls originally imposed during the cold war, allowing the engines to be shipped to China without an export license...