Word: exportability
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...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...
EXPLODING 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...
...export-minded Japanese, the prospect of another revaluation of the yen, which would raise the price of the country's goods in foreign markets, looms as a threat of almost Fujian financial proportions. Japanese products, after all, lost some of their competitive edge in last year's Smithsonian monetary realignments, during which the yen was revalued against the dollar by more (16.89%) than any other currency. Japanese businessmen want to avoid another such jolt at all costs. As a result Japan's trading partners, who have long sought to reason and cajole Tokyo into removing some...
...Extension of commercial credit generally made available by each nation to its other trading partners. This provision would entitle Soviet trading monopolies to seek financing for their U.S. purchases from the Government-run U.S. Export-Import Bank. U.S. businessmen who make deals in Moscow can apply for similar services at the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank...
...preserving old books. "Then we started to know the Eastern Europeans, and they started to trust us," says Hayworth. "So now they come to us for U.S. technology." Czech pharmaceutical officials, to cite an instance, want to buy American machinery for making plastic pill bottles. World Patent intends to export to Eastern Europe an American technique for cutting textiles by computer. Hayworth is also trying to find an American firm to use a Hungarian process for making motor oil that he claims "can clean an engine in 15 minutes...