Word: importers
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...thaw between the two Koreas is opening up avenues to trade. Last year Seoul eased restrictions on the import of cultural goods, which ?allowed Baik Soung Ook, president of Deshine.com, to buy the rights to seven animated films produced at Pyongyang's 425 Studio. "Everybody thinks these films must be tainted by ideology," says Baik. "Actually they are very educational." Some are obvious parables of Kim Jong Il's life, but one features an apolitical silver rabbit that Baik hopes to merchandise in South Korea. "My hope is that children in North and South Korea can share the same movies...
...Bove, who on Thursday in a Montpellier court launched his appeal of a three-month prison sentence handed down last September, led the attack on the local McDonald's after the U.S. slapped a 100 percent tariff on the import of the Roquefort cheese made by the accused and his fellow fighting farmers. The U.S. tariff had been sanctioned by the World Trade Organization, as a retaliation for France's ban on hormone-treated American beef...
...personalities and second-tier celebrities, Beat Takeshi presides on TV Tackle as the highest of Japanese pop culture royalty, an imperious entertainer whose every twitch and tick and grunt and sniffle elicit commentary and kudos. The show is standard Japanese chat show fodder: ribald commentary on issues of societal import, with plenty of carousing and bit comedy thrown in. So typical is TV Tackle of what dominates Japan's airwaves?it's one of seven Beat vehicles on the air right now?that the host doesn't even bother to familiarize himself with globalization, today's subject, before he arrives...
Iraq is barred from importing even the most basic medicine and medical supplies. Antibiotics and infant vaccinations are denied because American and British officials worry that such drugs will be used to create chemical weapons. For many Iraqi doctors, the most effective weapon at their disposal for fighting life-threatening diseases is a bottle of aspirin. Iraq is not even allowed to import the parts necessary for repairing the water filtration plants that were damaged during the Gulf...
With the U.S. government's stringent import regulations, the BSE prion is unlikely to come from Europe, even without the new blood-donation rules (which, given supply shortages, many experts suspect will end up costing more lives than they could possibly save). Direct transmission from one person to another is considered highly unlikely...