Word: exportation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promptly embarrassed Mitterrand by reneging. Libya fought a minor border war with Egypt in 1977 and supplied materiel to coup leaders in Burkina Faso in 1983. Gaddafi is suspected of having mined the Red Sea in 1984 (18 ships were damaged), and continues to use Libyan diplomatic pouches to export weapons. Says the State Department's Oakley: "Terrorism is one of the primary instruments of Gaddafi's foreign policy...
Italian officials reacted swiftly, fearing that the disaster could badly damage a wine industry that accounted for $953 million in exports last year. Italian Agriculture Minister Filippo Maria Pandolfi announced a new regulation that requires all wine marked for export to carry a government certificate of purity. Francesco Artale, director of the largest association of Italian winegrowers, tried to reassure customers in the U.S., which is Italy's biggest export market. Said he: "I can categorically exclude the possibility that any Italian wine sold in the United States has been adulterated...
...greater and far more plausible threat is that of Sandinista-sponsored subversion. The democratic governments of the region are understandably nervous that the Sandinistas will seek to export their own revolution. "The Central American countries don't dislike the Sandinistas because of their Soviet connections, but because of their connections with homegrown radicals," says a senior U.S. diplomat...
That means mounting trouble for Japanese companies that depend upon export sales, since they must charge customers more dollars to receive the same number of yen. In a report last week, the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry revealed that manufacturers of cars, computers, semiconductors, cameras, color television sets and videocassette recorders were planning to raise prices further in the U.S., adding to recent increases. Toyota, the largest Japanese automaker, has marked up its price tags by an average of 7% since the beginning of the year. A Toyota Cressida now costs $17,480, up 11.4% from...
...Nakasone government seems prepared at last to stimulate Japan's domestic demand, a step that has long been urged by the other members of the Group of Five. That would reduce the reliance of Japanese companies on exports, since they could sell more products at home. Says Roger Shields, chief international economist for New York's Chemical Bank: "Japan must assume the responsibilities of a major industrial power, and that will require dramatic changes in its economic structures. Japan cannot maintain the attitude that it must export to live...