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Their ire has been aroused particularly by the way the Administration has applied the 1979 Export Administration Act. Enacted primarily to regulate the overseas export of goods and machinery, the law has increasingly been used to restrict the communication of technical information and ideas within...
...These export controls have had direct economic consequences, scientists charge. A report by the National Academy of Sciences issued in April 1987 says that the Administration's interpretation of the export control laws costs the country 188,000 jobs and $9 billion a year and has been a major factor contributing to the nation's record trade deficit...
...begin with, has proved especially congenial to the entrepreneurial spirit. In Beijiao, about 15 miles south of Guangzhou, Ou Jiangquan, 49, general manager of the Yu Hua Industrial Co., has seen his firm expand from a bottle-cap producer to a manufacturer of electric fans and microwave ovens for export. "It's not easy for state-run enterprises to compete against us," says Ou. "They have to carry out reforms, or they will have...
...trouble is that most of those notions are at odds with Duarte's. ARENA has promised, for example, to allow the founding of private banks to compete with El Salvador's state bank and to return to private hands the country's major export industries. There is widespread speculation that ARENA will use its new power in the Assembly to stop investigations of human-rights abuses. Above all, ARENA has vowed to take a tougher approach to defeating El Salvador's guerrillas, going so far as to declare that it may send home some 55 U.S. military advisers who have...
...opposes as excessively restrictive a section that would require a ban for up to five years on the importation of any products made by Toshiba, the Japanese electronics company, and Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, a Norwegian government-owned manufacturer of computers and weapons. They were found last year to have violated export-control agreements by selling the Soviets high- tech equipment used to build quiet submarine propellers...