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...trafficking in the old high-flush models has added 20% to his bottom line. And here's the best part: most of the outlaw commodes sold in Windsor are made in the U.S. by companies like Kohler and American Standard. The high-flush models can still be produced for export, so long as they are not resold in the U.S. And thanks to NAFTA, they are duty free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psst! Wanna Buy An Illegal Toilet? | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...distilled. Agave's price has leaped from about $40 a ton a year ago to a high of $560 a ton last December. If the shortage continues--and the agave plant's grandfatherly maturation time of eight to 12 years almost guarantees it will--Mexico's leading liquor export, which brought in $296 million in 1998, is sure to get a lot more expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tequila's Happy Hour | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

While Japan is still in trouble, the rest of Asia "has come out of the bottom of the valley," claimed Victor Fung, chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Export growth is so strong, in fact, that Fung was concerned that "we may have come out of recession too early to get fundamental reforms." The region remains enthralled by a familiar theme: the emergence of China. Its entry into the World Trade Organization later this year, said Fung, "signifies China's taking its full place in the world." The prospects for growth are immense. Fung noted, for instance, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sky's The Limit | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...night found their way onto his playlist), but listening to the album is nowhere near as fun as hearing him live, even if it's a good recording. Perhaps what the night proved was that DJs--more than any other kind of musician, perhaps--are not suitable to export by compact disc. Lucky thing they can afford airplanes...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A bedrock of house music: One of the dons of the U.K. house music scene comes to Boston | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...January, Dole and Glenn, along with Senator Richard Lugar, wrote to the President calling for "sustained interventions" with European Union officials to make clear that export quotas and licensing "are not an acceptable solution." By August, Dole and Glenn demanded that Kantor initiate a so-called 301 investigation. The name comes from a section of the 1974 trade law that gives the USTR authority to investigate foreign trade practices and impose tariffs in retaliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Become a Top Banana | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

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