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...come to pass that the U.S. government launched a trade war over bananas at the expense of small American businesses, especially since the U.S. does not export bananas and Chiquita employs no American production workers...
Part of the problem has to do with the United States government's various security agencies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, among others, have held for years that allowing American companies to freely export cryptography capabilities (and to install better encryption systems at home) will greatly hinder the effectiveness of domestic and international crime-fighting operations. Their solution would be to mandate the use of "key escrow/recovery" encryption programs, whereby companies would be required to hand over their decoding sequences to a government agency, ostensibly to be used in case of investigation...
...speech, and he flunked another of those SATs journalists seem to have taken it upon themselves to give him: Asked what he had learned from a biography of former secretary of state Dean Acheson, which he said last week he was reading, Bush offered "that our nation's greatest export to the world has been, is and always will be the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land called America," and other generalities from his stump speech, but said nothing about Acheson. John McCain took the opportunity to jump in with a supposedly knowledgeable comment about Acheson, but more...
...passes one of the rare police posts, he will just drive through and wave to the guards, perhaps give them a cigarette. He doesn't have to declare the diamonds. All he has to do is go to the Ministry of Mines in Zambia and get an export permit. He makes up a name and address of the "supplier" in Angola. The diamonds are now instantly legal for international trade. And next week there will be more garampeiros--diamond diggers--waiting for him under the baobab...
...Trade (GATT)), have indeed been helpful in expanding trade on a broad front. But trade policy has its low side as well--a battle of narrow interests posturing as national or even international interests. The AFL-CIO is keen to keep out manufactured goods that developing countries can successfully export to the U.S., whether textiles from very low-wage countries or steel from Korea, Brazil and Russia. It marches in Seattle under the hypocritical (or to be more generous, simply erroneous) claim that it represents the interests of the world's workers, when it is in fact mostly representing...