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...PepsiCo deal involves hard as well as soft drinks. The company will import a whole bar shelf of Soviet liquors, including vodka, brandy, cordials and wine, which will be marketed by Monsieur Henri Wines Ltd., a PepsiCo division. Under an ingenious sales-incentive plan, the quantity of Pepsi allowed in Russia will be tied directly to the sale of Soviet potables to Americans. In effect, sharp Soviet traders found a way to get an aggressive American firm to push their liquor hard. PepsiCo officials are also pleased, since U.S. products have high prestige in Russia and sell almost instantly...
...people to see, of course, are the top officials of one or more of the Trade Ministry's 40 separate import-export corporations. The Soviets' centralized economy makes the job of spotting the key decision makers relatively simple, but it also has disadvantages. For example, a U.S. businessman angling for a huge order for combine harvesters at first found officials of the Agriculture Ministry eager to buy. Then abruptly they stalled on discussions, and the executive later learned that the Agriculture people unhappily bowed to the veto of another ministry, which claimed that the machinery should be Soviet...
Economic need will probably force the North to seek some form of cooperation with the South. Hanoi now relies on China for its rice, and that is a position of dependence that the Vietnamese have struggled for centuries to avoid. It would be tempting for the Northerners to import from the rice bowl in the South...
...parcels suddenly turned up in Arab mailboxes last week, only a month after a similar wave of deadly letter bombs had been sent from Amsterdam to Israelis round the world. In Beirut, one package exploded in the central post office, injuring three workers; another blew up in an export-import firm operated by a Palestinian, wounding a secretary and an office boy. A letter bomb to a Beirut newspaper was disarmed. In Cairo, postal employees spotted and defused a package mailed from Belgrade. In Algiers, a package wounded the secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization office, to whom...
Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka ordered a 20% slash in tariffs on most imports of industrial and mining products. The average Japanese tariff will come down to 9.5% on consumer goods. In addition, the Tokyo government will let in more goods (computers, leather products, many foods) that are restricted by import quotas, and will make low interest loans to importers first rather than to exporters, as had previously been its policy. The government also has invoked an ordinance compelling companies to form cartels to restrict exports of products deemed to be winning foreign customers too rapidly...