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...American figures show that goods of Chinese origin totaled 0.9% of all U.S. imports. The Chinese do not include in their figures goods transshipped through Hong Kong for reexport...
...Kremlin can sometimes buy technology through intermediaries, "false flag operations." U.S. export restrictions prohibit the sale of sensitive equipment to the Warsaw Pact nations, but the Soviets have found willing channels abroad. West European businessmen will buy the desired hardware and export it to dummy European companies, which then reexport it to the Soviet Union. Austria and Switzerland, with relatively lax controls on imports, have become favored trading posts. Says an executive from one Silicon Valley company: "If every piece of equipment shipped to Vienna stayed there, the city would sink...
...erotic experience. Over the past dozen years, several versions of Le Drugstore have appeared in Paris: multimedia bazaars featuring bizarre decor, intimate bars, lavish food and smart boutiques. The phenomenon bore only a dreamlike resemblance to the drug supermarkets of, say, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now, by way of cultural reexport, not to say retaliation, the metamorphosed drugstore has returned...
...where the government's yearly profit from sugar sales is greater than its total annual investment in all agriculture. The world's greatest sugar producer (7,000,000 tons), Russia may well use the 1,000,000 tons yearly it has agreed to buy from Cuba for reexport through satellite countries...
With an ever ready supply of hard cash, Tangier's wily Indian merchants could buy in the world's cheapest markets, reexport to the most expensive. Sometimes the transactions were legal, often they were not. In recent years the smugglers alone have been netting about $100 million in sales. Biggest customer: Franco's Spain, whose fumbling economy is supplied with vital products by Tangier's smugglers...