Industry leaders and labor groups want politicians to support policies that protect domestic export-driven businesses, and pundits point out that imports lead to trade deficits.

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Last year China argued that its export restrictions were needed to protect the environment, conserve supplies and meet domestic demand.

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They want to export America's rules that protect workers against exploitation in various forms, including rules forbidding child labour.

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Given that Russia has already teamed up with India to co-develop and co-produce a version of Moscow's fifth-generation fighter, and that China is co-developing with Pakistan a very low-cost fourth-generation fighter, the U.S. may decide to try and protect market share and lift an export ban on F-22s.

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Speaking before the Commerce Committee on Thursday, Evans said he would work as commerce secretary to tear down trade barriers and keep them down, while seeking to protect the interests of American workers and even import and export ratios between the United States and a number of key trading partners.

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Mongolia has laws that protect fossils - they are the property of the state and their export is banned.

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The workshop stressed the importance of Database's objective as an instrument to protect cultural heritage, by fighting against looting, theft, illegal export and import in the light of the UNESCO Convention of 1970 on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property and of the UNESCO Convention of 2001 on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage.

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