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...U.S.S.R. has just suffered its fourth bad harvest in a row; the U.S. Agriculture Department estimates that this year's Soviet crop will be a disappointing 170 million metric tons, 68 million tons below the goal. The department also predicts that the Soviets will be forced to import 46 million tons this year, at a cost of $6 billion...
...down a bit, and the price of their chips stopped falling. The Japanese firms said they were limiting their exports because of strong demand for chips in their domestic market. Some industry analysts in the U.S., however, suspected that the Japanese were reducing their shipments to avoid facing U.S. import restrictions...
Mitsui employees themselves set off the criminal probe in March 1980, when they brought some suspicious looking documents to customs agents in San Francisco. Investigators searched company offices in New York City and San Francisco in December 1980, and ultimately combed through stacks of records and import statements dating from 1977 to last June. The hunt turned up evidence that Mitsui had conspired with two Northern California steel buyers to overstate the price of wire products and nails. Both U.S. firms last year pleaded guilty to criminal charges brought in separate cases...
Communist nations have fared no better than free-market ones. In the Soviet Union, where factories are increasingly outdated, annual growth has slowed to less than 2%, in contrast with 4.8% only five years earlier. After a third consecutive dismal harvest, the Soviets this year will have to import a record 44 million tons of grain. The Soviets' East European satellites have run up $60 billion in debt to Western governments and banks, including $25 billion owed by Poland alone...
...decisions to help the floundering economy. He will have to continue the 17-point austerity program belatedly begun by the lame-duck Lopez Portillo administration. Among the targets: a reduction of the government's budget deficit from 15% of the G.D.P. to 3% by the end of 1985, import restrictions, government hiring freezes and probably a hike in Mexico's heavily subsidized energy prices. The current price of gasoline...