Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest customer, Canada buys 25% of American exports; it sells the U.S. 70% of its exports. Canada might export even more, but many of its tariff-protected industries remain inefficient by U.S. standards, pay their employees less than similar U.S. workmen earn, and suffer a worrisome brain drain to the south...
...satisfied with the way Ongania was setting about the task of rebuilding the inflation-ridden, strife-torn nation. This week Ongania is expected to announce a series of "directives" spelling out a program of austerity and reform. Reports say they will include a sharp cutback on state employment, special export credits to stimulate foreign trade, more public housing, complete overhaul of Illia's disastrous oil policy that forced Argentina to import petroleum for the first time in years, and reorganization of the country's food-distribution system to eliminate middlemen and help blunt the cost-of-living spiral...
...economy is no longer boiling, it is still hot. One symptom is that prosperous American consumers are buying rising quantities of goods from abroad; by the National Foreign Trade Council's estimate, the U.S. this year will export only $4 billion more merchandise than it will import, the smallest export surplus since 1959. That shrinkage alone could easily hike the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit this year from its $1.3 billion...
...recovered his nerve, 2000 years after he lost it. Emmanuel G. Mesthene, a Harvard export on technology, told the delegates to the World Conference on Church and Society in Geneva Wednesday...
...become a significant agricultural product until World War II cut off normal U.S. imports of fats and oil. From a crop of 193 million bu. in 1945, output rose to 843.7 million bu., worth nearly $2.5 billion last fall. Soybeans are the U.S.'s most valuable agricultural export, ranking ahead of wheat and corn...