While it is true that U.S. investment banks and other institutions could make their case on Capitol Hill concerning lost profits if a foreign enterprise's access to, for example, the U.S. bond market was restricted due to proliferation concerns, it is unlikely that there would be a great outpouring of political sympathy for generally well-healed Wall Street players.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Remy, Inc. (formerly Delco-Remy, and formerly part of GM) is already building starters and alternators in China through both a wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) and a joint venture with a unit of ASIMCO.

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Sino-Forest is a Wholly-Owned Foreign Enterprise that harvests, processes, and sells wood from leased or owned tree plantations in various Chinese provinces.

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This is a joint committee of members of the Business and Enterprise, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees which, every year, scrutinises the government's annual report on the control of strategic exports, including weapons.

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Beijing evidently took advantage of low prices to stockpile, thereby pumping up imports, a tactic it employed in October when enterprise managers and central technocrats went on foreign shopping sprees for, among other items, crude oil and copper.

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