Word: exporting
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Begging Business. It is not such obvious obstacles as tariffs or higher U.S. wages that do most to prevent sales abroad. As exporters of everything from road builders to tie clasps have learned, U.S. products often sell well overseas because of design, quality, speedy delivery, or simply because the goods are "Made in U.S.A." But businessmen don't do as well as they should in foreign markets, says the Commerce Department, because of a failure to use their proudest skill: salesmanship. "Out of 300,000 U.S. manufacturers, there aren't more than 15,000 who are doing anything...
Though the U.S., with its vast domestic market, need never say "Export or die" as the British do, exports are becoming increasingly important with U.S. industry producing at only 85% capacity. Despite the increase in exports, the U.S. share of world trade slipped from 20% in 1950 to less than 17% last year...
...amount of that given to an American and one-third the amount given to a British worker. But this comparison is unfair. The real truth lies in the sum of goods and services the Japanese laborer can acquire with his wages, in terms of real returns, compensation in Japanese export industries is equal to that given in Western Europe and one third of that paid in the United States...
Misleading Figures. By Washington's reckoning the aid figures are impressive−$866 million pumped into Latin America thus far, another $234 million earmarked. But the totals can be misleading. The U.S. has been sending aid to Latin America for years through a bevy of Government agencies: the Export-Import Bank, the Development Loan Fund, Point Four, and others. Lumped together, as they now are under the Alliance, these bits and pieces amounted to an average of $504 million each year in 1959 and 1960. The $866 million total for the Alliance, when spread over 17 months, does...
Most frequently, however, the foreigners observe that U.S. exports last year were only 4% of the gross national product. "The way to make the U.S. economy healthier is to export more capital goods," says Indian Industrialist Shanti Prasad Jain. Agrees a Belgian banker: "The saturation of the U.S. internal market has not inspired a sufficiently aggressive drive to find markets abroad...