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While the Common Market is having its trouble agreeing on common tariff policy, one export seems to be welcome everywhere. For some reason, perhaps better left to psychologists and cooks, Europe is taking to a food that has long been largely an Italian preserve: pasta. Though Italians are still the heartiest eaters (66 lbs. per year), Italy's pasta exports have risen 1,400% in a decade, crossing practically all national borders. of Paolo Agnesi & Sons, Italy's oldest pasta maker and (with $10 million annual sales) one of its largest. Anticipating a 50% increase in exports this...
...possible. Shocked when he heard that Germans were eating spaghetti as a side dish to sausage, Agnesi dispatched Imperia's best chef to the Munich trade fair to cook up 35,000 servings and teach the Hausfrauen their spaghetiquette. Germany is now the company's second biggest export market, after Switzerland...
...most dramatic play to date in an unprecedented resolution adopted by the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. With only a handful of the 3,800 delegates muttering disapproval, that normally conservative body urged the Government to pull down its barriers against the export of nonstrategic goods to the Soviet Union and its European satellites. Such controls, said the Chamber, "are not necessary for the security of the U.S. and result in discrimination harmful to its competitive position...
...strategic goods could be the West's secret weapon for exposing Communism's weakness as a system for providing a better life for its people." But beneath such philosophy is usually a more pragmatic conviction that the U.S. is simply losing a lot of good export business because the Communists can get almost anything they want from the U.S.'s trade-with-anybody allies in Europe. Western sales to the Soviet bloc are growing by 10% a year, but the U.S. wrote up less than 2%, or $166 million, of last year's $4.2 billion total...
Softening. The Johnson Administration, which would like to soften its enforcement of the embargo, expects the Chamber's resolution to help it get some amendments to the 15-year-old Export Control Act. But there is strong support for the embargo in Congress, and what promises to be a noisy brawl over amendments to the act will begin as soon as the civil rights fight is settled...