Word: exportation
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...counterweight to its foes in the Northern Alliance. A vestigial Taliban may also give any potentially disaffected rank-and-file members some alternative to going down with the ship. As Secretary Powell put it last week, "You can't ethnically cleanse Afghanistan after this is over. You can't export them." All you can hope for, perhaps, is that Afghanistan has a good, enduring reason to halt its most threatening export...
King Abdullah of Jordan visited President Bush in the White House Sept. 28, just in time to discuss cooperation against terror and receive the goodies he had negotiated with the Clinton Administration last year. Jordan is one of the smallest U.S. export markets, taking in just $306 million in U.S. goods last year. But many companies hope to make fresh inroads because duties on industrial and agricultural goods will disappear over the next decade. U.S. wheat and barley growers and telecommunication and pharmaceutical companies are expected to benefit, as are small firms such as Quigley of Doylestown, Pa., maker...
...companies moving into Vietnam include those that can help the nation of 80 million people build a reliable, modern infrastructure: makers of equipment for telecommunications, electricity generation, medicine and avionics. Hal Katersky, CEO of InterGlobal, a livestock-wastewater treatment company, says, "We couldn't export there before. We think Vietnam is a great market. We've been there six months, [but] haven't sold anything...
...major impediment to a WTO round is agriculture, the sector that most nations guard almost as vigilantly as their own sovereignty. Negotiators must tackle how far and how fast the U.S. might be willing to lower production and export subsidies--an Administration goal designed to help persuade other countries to do the same. But the White House will need to persuade farm belt members of Congress first. Even trickier is Europe's insistence that developing countries bring their investment and environmental rules in line with Western standards; developing countries have long sought access to big agriculture markets...
...sanctions had prohibited the sale of military-related goods and the extension of loans or credit for reasons other than food or humanitarian needs. U.S. makers of engines, engine parts and electronic devices saw their exports to India fall from $297 million in 1997 to $97 million a year later. Similarly, exporters of construction, transportation and mining equipment experienced a drop in exports to Pakistan from $129 million to $38 million. "It'll take six months to be able to reinitiate contact with the agencies" that were under sanction, says Frank Folmsbee, sales and export manager for Aries Electronics...