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...Swiss could not care less, so long as the smugglers register their purchases for export. The contrabbandieri respond gratefully by registering-most of the time. As a result, official Swiss statistics show that cigarette exports to Italy (usually of U.S. brands made under license in Switzerland) flared from 50 million packs in 1960 to 210 million packs last year, while Italian statistics show that only 3,000,000 packs of cigarettes were imported legally in 1964. Italian border police nabbed another 70 million packs of smokes being toted over the border on everything from helicopters and freight cars to trained...
Widening Gap. Despite a three-year campaign to improve the quality of exports, the regime admits that only 10% of East Germany's production is as good as Western output. Partly because the Scandinavians and some other West ern buyers have complained that East German products fall apart after a few months' use, the country's sales to the West have flattened out at 16% of its $3 billion export total-of which West Germany takes 10% and Russia 50%. Moreover, the economic gap between East and West Germany is widening. Though the East should be growing...
...company is not only the first arrangement of its kind between an Eastern and a Western European country, but is further distinguished by the fact that it will have its headquarters in West Germany. Primarily a trading company, it will handle all Polish exports and imports of heavy machinery, thus expanding IBAG'S Eastern market for cranes, cement mixers and stone-crushing machines while providing Poland with a much more effective Western sales outlet than its bureaucratic state export agency could ever hope to become...
...slight or insult. It will jealously defend a host of obsolete prerogatives and work practices that are the despair of man agement efforts at efficiency-and often of labor union leaders themselves. This year alone, Britain's auto industry, main stay of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's export push to bolster the sickly pound, has already been hit by 109 separate strikes equaling 645,000 lost work days- nearly every one an unauthorized, wildcat strike...
...promising outlet for surpluses is through increased commercial sales abroad. Of the $6.2 billion worth of farm products that the U.S. sent abroad last year, $4.6 million was through normal export channels. The future of U.S. sales to Common Market countries ($1.4 billion in 1964) is threatened by the community's drift toward protective tariffs. But Europe is not the whole world; as other nations improve their diets and elevate their tastes, they may open huge new markets for U.S. farm products. Even so, they could absorb only a fraction of the 5 to 10% year-in, year...