Word: exports
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...accord requires the two parties to identify by next month industries and export products that could benefit from lower tariffs, and then gradually to reduce those duties. U.S. Administration officials said the affected products would most probably include processed foods, petrochemicals, electronic equipment and automobiles...
Mexico, which ships about two-thirds of its $21 billion in export wares to U.S. markets, hopes the Washington agreement will make it easier to sell more goods to its neighbor. Stronger export sales would help finance the country's $100 billion foreign debt...
Repeated attempts to control the ivory trade have failed. The current system, set up under CITES in 1986, requires ivory-producing nations to adopt export quotas intended to safeguard existing elephant populations. In addition, each tusk in international trade must be covered by an export permit and marked with a unique serial number, which is recorded in a computer in Cambridge, England. Theoretically, that number allows nations to trace the tusk as it passes from country to country in trade. But many quotas have been ill-considered or ignored, falsified export documents have been discovered in numerous nations, and corrupt...
...stay alive. In the two weeks before the country's June 19 ban on imports from non-African nations went into force, traders arranged for 35 ivory shipments to Japan, weighing 29 tons -- a fourth of 1988's imports. (Hong Kong officials worked overtime to approve the flurry of export permits for Japan-bound ivory.) In September Japan announced it was, "for the time being," adopting a zero quota for ivory imports. A government spokesman said Japan will follow closely the events at the Lausanne meeting before deciding whether to resume limited ivory imports. Japan's major traders have enough...
...name he no longer remembers. There is no evidence that Kitagawa violated any laws, but the rules allowed him to purchase ivory that had been confiscated or whose origins in Africa were lost in the myriad transactions between that continent and Japan. Under "country of origin," some of the export permits say only "unknown" or are blank. Kitagawa bought 13 tons in Singapore last year and twelve tons from Burundi...