Word: exportation
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...military, are deeply involved in illegal practices. Indeed it is probably fair to say that much of the high-level corruption in Viet Nam today can be traced directly to the complicity of Americans. Last April, for example, a Vietnamese minister asked a U.S. aid official to sign an export permit for 22,000 tons of copper (price: $1,000 a ton), claiming the copper came from generator wiring picked up in Cambodia. The official signed the paper, thereby testifying that the copper did not consist of brass casings. The Criminal Investigations Division decided otherwise; it confiscated the shipment...
...Trezise's remarks, U.S. officials last week inspired newspaper stories that the Administration is considering imposing a special tariff on all Japanese products in order to offset the undervaluation of the yen (which some high officials calculate is 20% below its prospective free-market value) or stopping Export-Import Bank financing of exports to Japan. That move could cut shipments of some U.S. raw materials, such as coal and lumber, that the Japanese badly need...
...were inevitable. Japanese shipbuilders, for example, are demanding that foreigners signing contracts for oil tankers agree to pay in yen, rather than in foreign currencies that may be worth fewer yen by the time the ships are delivered. Automakers are discussing posting an immediate 5% increase in export prices in order to get the pain of yen revaluation over with even before it becomes fact...
...Benoit study: "Assuming that aid cuts will be inevitable after 1972, it would seem reasonable to aim for U.S. residual financing of a pre-buildup (i-e-1964) level of per capita imports, adjusted for price increases. We estimate this for 1975 at $514 million in 1969 (U.S. export) prices, but we project a further $70 million of Republic of Vietnam capital imports, financed by an assumed increase in non-U.S. aid and loans between...
Fred Branfman, a reporter for Dispatch Nows Service who lived in Laos for four years reports that in the three years before June 1966 Laos's exports totalled $3,000,000 while imports totalled $108,000,000-an import export ratio of 36 to 1. Recent government reports say that the ratio between 1964 and 1968 was 14 to 1. Other reports run as high...