Word: reexport
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...well as for export. This year Japanese consumers will spend $350 million for Japan-made radio and TV sets. Abroad, Japanese radios are being assembled in plants from the Philippines to Egypt. The U.S., which imported 2,300,000 Japanese radios last year, around a quarter of them for reexport, this year is buying at the annual rate of 3,600,000. Japanese manufacturers are not stopping with such consumer products. Three Japanese companies are rushing industrial computers to market, and some are even beginning to show an interest in bidding on U.S. defense contracts...
...supposedly wanted them for local farmers. Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Toledo cabled its Syrian dealer, Levant Motors, to investigate the $150,000 order. Levant Motors discovered that Consignee Ma-ghamez was just a front man, and replied that it suspected Les Fils de Basile Obegi was planning to reexport the jeeps to Rumania. The auto firm, however, said nothing to the Commerce Department...
...Transshipment and reexport, i.e., the device whereby goods secretly consigned to China are first shipped to a third country and then reshipped to their real destination. Pre-embargo example: A fortnight ago 51 U.S.-made Dodge trucks, first sent to India, finally showed up in Hong Kong, presumably bound for Red China. The British seized them...
...first postwar shipment of Japanese rayon arrived in the U.S. But it gave U.S. rayon men no competitive worries. The Japanese product was so poor that importers could sell little of the cloth to U.S. buyers. They were offering it for reexport at about 50? a yard, considerably under domestic prices...
Lord Halifax gave Ambassador Maisky no satisfaction, despite the latter's oath that the cargoes were entirely for Soviet consumption, not reexport to Germany, and his legal point that Russia's ships are State-owned, hence not subject to seizure. Presently it was announced that British officials at Hong Kong had turned both Red freighters over to their allies, the French, who were taking them to a port in Indo-China for further scrutiny. Report was that the officers & crew of the Selenga, refusing to submit, were placed under arrest. It seemed a cinch that neither Russia...