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...American Northwest, which have chafed as the Canadian share of the U.S. softwood lumber market has risen from 19% in 1975 to 33%. But the tariff announcement stirred resentment in Ottawa, where it was pointed out that the U.S. Commerce Department three years ago found the same Canadian export practices to be acceptable. Canadian International Trade Minister Patricia Carney said the latest decision "cannot be justified" and added that her government would "pursue all avenues available to us to argue against this determination." There were worries that the softwood-tariff announcement would compromise delicate free-trade negotiations that have been...
...order to allow seizure of assets was signed late Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate Ralph Geffen and Kroll said he received his copy yesterday. He said the order allows attachment of assets of the government newspaper Izvestia, the Ministry of Foreign Trade, two export agencies and the Soviet government itself...
While the currency battles raged, Chrysler Corp. last week announced it would become the first U.S. automaker in decades to export to Western Europe. The reason: Chrysler feels that at the current exchange rates, some of its autos and vans will have wide appeal despite stiff European and Japanese competition. Unlike GM and Ford, Chrysler does not have European automaking subsidiaries, whose sales could be threatened by the export push. Says Robert Lutz, a Chrysler executive vice president: "At 240 yen to the dollar we were doomed. But at 150 yen we have a shot. I see real potential...
...does not automatically confer success. Indeed, the Labor government's popular-approval rating recently sank to 32%, fueling speculation that its days are numbered. Brundtland has been criticized for proposing new social spending at a time when low prices for Norway's government-owned North Sea oil have reduced export earnings from almost $2.1 billion in 1985 to $1.2 billion this year. And she has put off some of her NATO allies by maintaining a cool distance from Washington. Last month she banned U.S. F-111 fighter- bombers from Norwegian airspace during allied military exercises...
Last year the President adroitly headed off a similar defeat by announcing an Executive Order that imposed some of the sanctions included in a bill then pending in Congress. Among them: a restriction on loans by Americans to South African government agencies and a ban on the export of most nuclear technology and materials. But the current legislation, passed during an election year and at a time when American outrage against South Africa is on the rise, goes much farther. It bans all new American investment in and bank loans to South Africa, as well as air traffic between...