The planned direct export pipeline is of strategic importance, said Ali Balo, a senior Kurdish oil official.

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Iran offers one of the most direct export routes, particularly for Turkmen gas.

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The Asia Pacific iron ore division provides four direct shipping export products to Asia via the global seaborne trade market, and has a rated annual production capacity of 9 million tons of iron ore.

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This is the direct result of major rewrites of the Export Administration Act in 1985 and 1988, by which Congress awarded the Commerce Department exclusive responsibility in a number of relevant areas.

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In many cases there is no obvious direct state involvement in the theft or illegal export of controlled technology.

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Those denied certification are denied most direct aid from the United States and all U.S. Export-Import Bank financing.

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Ironically, as the debate intensifies over the appropriate controls on the export of machine tools, fresh evidence has just become public concerning the direct military use being made by the USSR of accurate systems illegally acquired from the Italian firm, Olivetti.

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White buses drop workers off at the export companies and cargo trucks line up to cross the bridges that straddle the concrete canal built to direct the flow of the Rio Grande River.

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