But the ban comes at a particularly bad time for Iran, because the nuts are harvested and ready for export to Europe.
Honda's Swindon factory builds cars and engines for export to more than 60 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.
These export-processing zones provided for duty-free entry and duty-free exit for export-oriented goods and helped in the transfer of technology and skill to the developed countries.
Vineyards were adapted for other uses, and what was left was set to producing mass quantities of harsh reds and pallid whites for export to Russia, Poland and elsewhere in the Eastern bloc.
Many Chinese businesses have been built on using cheap labour to produce cheap, commoditised goods such as clothes and shoes for export.
One key trend is that Chinese companies will design as well as manufacture products that are sold into the Chinese market and for the export market.
The ability to work in the kind of visual environment that designers are used to, generate working comps for clients and export code for developers will both speed up design development, but also avoid the unintended awkwardness that can result from programmatic design decisions made without sufficient visual feedback.
Recently, for example, I was in Nicaragua visiting a new client, a 700-member farmer cooperative that produces coffee for export and corn for domestic consumption The cooperative sells 300 tons of corn annually to its main buyer, the World Food Programme which is used to produce 6.7 million school lunches a year or one meal per day for 44, 000 children for an entire school year.
This is home to 74 factories that produce mainly textiles and electronic gadgets for export--duty-free and quota-free--to the U.S. These factories make up what is called a qualifying industrial zone (QIZ), an entity designated by the U.S. in 1996 to help increase imports from Jordan.
Fiat and Volkswagen also produce cars for export, and Ford makes engines at its Port Elizabeth factory that it sends abroad.
And the market for bauxite and alumina, its main export goods, has been rockier than for other commodities.
It says it needs nuclear power as an alternative energy source to meet booming electricity demand and preserve its large oil and gas reserves for export.
At the same time, Beijing wants to cut back rare earth exports to the rest of the world, instead encouraging domestic production into wind and solar products for export around the world.
Because the value of imported inputs accounts for about half of the value of Chinese exports, a stronger Yuan reduces the prices of imported inputs used to manufacture and assemble products in China for export to the United States and elsewhere.
"We have been very focused in calling for a breakthrough now, " says Mary Irace, vice president of trade and export finance for the National Foreign Trade Council, a pro-trade industry group in Washington.
Jane Jacobs envisioned this transformative churning in her landmark book The Economy of Cities--a process in which the poor, making the best of their circumstances, create substitutes for expensive imports and eventually develop superior products for export.
Conservation International support the development of electricity generation for domestic consumption and export as these are critical components of development for Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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Russia will just be one of many gas producers competing for European and Asian export share.
It has slashed local energy demand, reducing chronic pollution and leaving more oil for export.
We have discussed and promoted export fairs for small businesses to do business overseas.
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But also evident is the necessity of these companies to produce for export and to follow their customers to overseas markets.
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In Moscow, the talk is about freeing up the country's vast oil and gas reserves for profitable export, by using nuclear power to meet domestic needs.
This should generate 5, 250MW when finished, increasing electricity production in the country fivefold, providing a surplus for export and allowing Ethiopia to open up as a manufacturer.
In cases where cultural patrimony is in jeopardy from pillage, Article 9 provides a possibility for more specific undertakings such as a call for import and export controls.
An appreciating Yuan reduces production costs, which enables Chinese processors to lower their prices for export and still earn profits, mitigating (sometimes entirely) the higher prices otherwise associated with a stronger currency.
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Small, landlocked, and mountainous, Lesotho relies on remittances from Basotho employed in South Africa, customs duties from the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), and export revenue for the majority of government revenue.
That agenda had included plans to reduce the costs of doing business across borders by 5% over the next few years by, among other things, streamlining customs procedures and speeding up applications for export permits.
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