Word: exportable
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...president of AAC Systems, based in Pasadena, California, a company that sells computerized cost-control systems for large telephone networks. "Sony can snap out a Walkman, but they can't send you a technician to fix it." The priority given by foreign buyers to quality and service allows American exporters to de-emphasize price cutting, which is one reason export-related jobs in the U.S. pay on average 17% more than jobs that produce goods sold only domestically...
...export growth won't excite American workers very much until they see more of the benefits that American businesses are reaping. For three decades after World War II, higher American wages followed closely upon improvements in productivity. That stalled when companies grew bloated in the 1970s and early '80s. After the widespread layoffs that ensued, labor found itself in a weakened position, which allowed employers to hoard the new gains as productivity turned back...
Latin America will understand a rejected NAFTA to be a deliberate effort to prevent closer ties with Latin American countries. NAFTA is much more than lowering tariffs to export more American goods into the growing Mexican market; it is much more than taking advantage of lower Mexican wages and providing cheaper products for the American consumer. For Mexico, the agreement is about raising the living standards of millions of its citizens; it is the affirmation, the final step, in a series of difficult reforms that have been undertaken in order to stabilize its economy enough to be a legitimate participant...
...export stability," says German Defense Minister Volker Ruhe, "we will import instability." Those opposed to the concept argue that growing bigger could introduce enough regional quarrels to unravel NATO. The skeptics warn particularly against isolating and antagonizing Russia, creating threats that do not now exist. Though Christopher and Defense Secretary Les Aspin say the republics of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, could become eligible to join in the future, there is no realistic chance Moscow would sign on as a junior partner in an alliance dominated by the U.S. and Germany...
...have already happened. The largest -- and most controversial -- migrants to Mexico have been the automakers and other big manufacturing firms that have built assembly plants, or maquiladoras, along the border and employ low-wage Mexican labor. This process has been going on for more than 20 years. The factories export the vast bulk of their output, basically duty-free, back to the U.S. Some 2,200 maquiladoras, most of them American-owned, employ more than 500,000 Mexican workers. Not only has the shifting of the facilities to Mexico cost some Americans their jobs, but lax environmental standards and poorly...