Word: exports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your story "New Industry for Ireland": the advent of the Borden Co. is of threefold benefit to us: 1) it utilizes native material, 2) it gives badly needed employment, and 3) the product is for export...
...products manufactured domestically for the first time ranged from chemicals to portable typewriters. Biggest rise in production was recorded by the automobile industry, which turned out 52,115 vehicles in 1960 as compared with 36,923 in 1959. More than a million bicycles were manufactured, and a modest export trade of 10,000 bicycles begun with the Middle East. Steel production rose from 1,800,000 tons in 1959 to 2,200,000 tons last year, enabling India to export about 150,000 tons of pig iron and steel. And there is no indication that India's modest boom...
...V.I.P. lounge was thrown open in Montreal's new air terminal for a press conference. The Russian mission had brochure-fat briefcases and an expansive statement from Heavy Machinery Salesman Anatoly Prokhorov that "we are interested in selling anything in Canada." When Prokhorov cited Moscow's export line of Moskvich and Volga autos, added that he would like to set up a Canadian assembly plant, mayors and businessmen in half a dozen Ontario and Quebec towns rushed to announce that they had just the site. To get the trade going, Prokhorov set his sights on 500 Russian-built...
...world trade. Last year U.S. firms poured a record $300 million into branch plants inside its walls, partly to get in on the ground floor of the European market itself, but also to get the benefit of the Community's advantages in competing for export markets elsewhere. Chief advantage is wage costs, which are less than a third of the U.S.'s. Average hourly wage rates in manufacturing industries (as tabulated for 1959 by the French economic journal Etudes et Conjoncture...
...year 1960 in Canada, if disappointing, was not all that bad. Gross national product rose, if by a melancholy 2.3%, to a record $35 billion; despite unemployment, personal income climbed to a $24.6 billion record. Canada's strong drive to export its abundant natural resources (wheat, natural gas, forest products) to world markets cut $200 million from its worrisome $1.4 billion balance-of-payments deficit. But what looms largest to Canadians is the statistics of ownership: 76% of the oil and gas industry, 61% of the mining and smelting industry, 56% of manufacturing are controlled by foreign investors, with...