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...Home"] Other factors have forced the nation to look anew at its role in the world. A crucial consideration is the nation's dwindling birth rate. Japan is running out of workers. To fill its factories and care for a graying population, the Asian nation will need to import ever greater numbers of laborers from abroad. What better way to lure skilled immigrants to Japan - ones who might be just as interested in moving to the U.S. or Australia - than piquing their interest in all things Japanese...
Frankel’s paper responds to concerns that environmentally motivated import restrictions would necessarily conflict with World Trade Organization statues protecting free trade, which he characterized as already “pretty environmentally friendly...
...other cases, overly specific language leads to unrealistic standards, as in the shrimp import dispute where the law required the use of a particular rescue device for the trapped turtles...
...Privately, bankers and businessmen warn of a lack of currency to import food and the failure of local producers to replace imports. The supplies of foodstuffs available on Moscow supermarket shelves are shrinking as importers struggle to raise credit to replenish their stocks. Even the vodka has disappeared from the shelves of my two village stores - they can't raise credit to pay their supplier. And at least two major national alcohol producers have recently folded...
...solution will have to include Rwanda - as evidenced by the import of the planned meeting between Kagame and Kablia. Human rights groups have accused Congolese forces of colluding with ethnic Hutu militias thata fled neighboring Rwanda to escape justice for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The Congolese government has repeatedly promised to disarm the militias, to little effect. On the other side, Kagame, an ethnic Tutsi, has ties to the eastern Congolese rebels. That group says it is fighting to protect ethnic Tutsis in Congo who have been persecuted by both the Congolese government and the Hutu militias...