Rather, Chinese scientists say U.S. restrictions on some high-technology exports have required them to redouble their domestic efforts.
Despite the recession, Israel's technology exports grew by more than 5% last year.
Over the same period, green technology exports increased by 77% compared to 30% for welfare technology and -12% for manufacturing.
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The lifting of U.S. export controls on high technology exports to India will open vast opportunities for giant research and development efforts.
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The emerging Sinosphere is also likely to be somewhat less focused on manufacturing and more on services like real estate, finance and high-technology exports.
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The administration might accept a deal under which the embargo is ended in exchange for tight controls on technology exports (though Mr Bush was sceptical).
The prospects for U.S. clean technology exports are vast.
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Kandaurov compared the intended actions of the KGB and Interior Ministry to tax inspectors in the West or to the investigations of Western governments into suspected breaches of COCOM regulations (which prohibit high-technology exports to the Soviet Union).
Several congressional committees and the Justice Department are investigating whether Clinton waived restrictions on satellite technology exports to China as a favor to Bernard Schwartz, a major Democratic donor who is chief executive officer of the company that benefited from the transfer, Loral Space and Communications Co.
Mr Obama has directed stimulus money to domestic manufacturers of renewable-energy technology, promised to revisit controls on exports of technology with national-security implications and has said he will protect American intellectual-property rights more rigorously abroad.
Shortly after that, hydrocarbon exports will exceed those from information technology equipment, and then quickly exceed automotive sector exports.
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The multilateral regime governing exports of high technology items with military applications, known as COCOM, is long gone.
"American military prowess depends on lawful, controlled exports of sensitive technology by U.S. industries and their subsidiaries, " added John Morton, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
International sanctions on Iran include a UN embargo on arms exports and nuclear technology as well as EU bans on most financial transactions as well as the purchase of crude oil.
Outgoing Drug Enforcement Administrator Thomas Constantine, offering the most dire predictions, said lawmakers would create "an electronic sanctuary" for criminals intent on disrupting public safety or national security if the plan to drop controls on exports of encryption technology is not stopped.
The short answer is that technology represents half f all israeli exports.
This has dragged down other Asian currencies such as those of South Korea and Taiwan, which compete with Japan for high-value exports, such as technology products, Thin said.
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The Persian Gulf visit by the First Minister is also to bang the drum for Scottish business and education, with McGrigors law firm opening an office, Heriot-Watt University opening a campus, Weir Group expected to announce new developments and exports of renewable energy technology to be promoted.
First, we need to discourage investments in companies that provide the advanced technology and capital essential to the oil exports that underpin the Iranian economy.
Rising oil production (largely thanks to imported western technology and know-how) means that exports are growing strongly and are set to continue doing so in coming years.
The dissolution of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) in 1994 left the United States without an effective, multilateral means to control exports of militarily useful goods and technology.
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The Ministry of Commerce in 2010 said India should consider raising the limit to 74% as it would encourage the transfer of proprietary technology to India, bring in funds and boost exports.
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It was not surprising, then, that its exports should have fallen in the past year as the technology bubble burst and the world's biggest economies headed for recession.
While the forecast for a resurgence in Japan technology innovation appears in doubt, the prediction for Japan's automobile exports seems more enthusiastic as the yen has weakened.
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This ushered in a new era when China used oil exports to obtain the hard currency to buy the equipment and technology needed to modernize its economy.
The final sign of a turnaround, which I call "long-term value creation, " occurs if and when the country's leaders seriously address long-term competitiveness issues: quality of products, value-added component of exports, acquisition of state-of-the-art technology and educational reforms.
Cut diamonds, high-technology equipment, and agricultural products (fruits and vegetables) are the leading exports.
China is also developing technology for electric vehicles, which can help reduce oil imports as well as generate exports.
China runs a deficit on its technology trade with the rest of the world, and 80% of technological imports and exports are controlled by foreign-owned firms in China.
At the height of the fishing-boat dispute, China stopped exports to Japan of these minerals, which are crucial for the manufacture of many high-technology products.
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