Word: exports
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Losing "Third Markets." Partly be cause the U.S. has not been very export-minded until lately, few U.S. companies had even complained to Washington about the differentials. But the Congressional Joint Economic Committee got wind of the matter in May and tipped off Kennedy. The Congressmen -notably the committee's chairman, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas-were shocked to learn that, for example, the freight for U.S. steel pipe and tubing outbound to Europe is $42.40 a ton, while the inbound rate is $22.62. Scotch whisky moves to New York at a shipping cost of 840 a case...
...Steaks. By 1970, an Argentine government study estimates, the world market for Argentine beef will double to 820,000 tons a year. But by then, the report says, Argentina will have only 300,000 tons available for export. Reason: the Argentines themselves will be eating up too much of the output. They can buy a good steak for 45?, snack between meals on succulent beef sausages, and already lead the world in beef consumption (178 Ibs. per person). The report glumly concludes that some way will have to be found to make beef less appealing to the locals...
French garment manufacturers who export to Germany sell a higher proportion of jumbo sizes (16 to 18) there than anywhere else. In most other countries, also, well-buttressed women steer clear of such revealing clothes as stretch ski pants; in West Germany, according to the world-girdling Bogner stretch-pants concern, there is a steady demand for slipcover sizes...
...annual basis.- Britain's growth rate is edging close to the 4% charted by Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, and some economists predict that it will exceed 6% in the second half. Partly because a 2% unemployment rate has steadied labor costs and export prices, Britain's exports in the first half rose 6% over the same period in 1962, its balance-of-payments surplus hit a four-year high, and the pound sterling strengthened...
...situation was somewhat different on the Continent: "overemployment" and inflationary wage jumps (as much as 10% in France this year) held back exports, gave the Common Market a first-quarter trade deficit of $750 million, and brought about a much more competitive export situation between the Common Market, Britain and the U.S. Rising wages stimulated a consumer-goods boom that has kept the market growing despite a general slackening in capital goods investment. Common Market steel production, at 39 million tons in the first half, was the same as last year's first-half rate, but chemical production...