This is fine for flying tiny microchips into Europe or America from Asia, but too expensive for clunkier goods.
As American pundits and politicians call for Syrian intervention, however merited or unjustified those appeals may be on humanitarian grounds, such pleas have yet to rally majority support for such action in America, Europe or the Middle East.
There is also a risk that transatlantic ties will be soured by broad policy differences: for example, over America's missile-defence plans or Europe's hopes for military self-reliance.
"They do not ask airlines from America or Europe for all this information, " grumbles Feda Mohammad Fedawi, Kam Air's vice president.
Most people are surprised about the beauty of these places, which should become as iconic for Europe as Yellowstone is for North America or the Serengeti is for Africa.
It would be somewhat difficult to trace cholera outbreaks in 18th-century American towns since cholera did not reach North America, or Europe for that matter, until the 1830s.
Most of these have a multiracial cast, look to Africa for inspiration rather than clinging to images of Europe or America, or poke fun at South African racial stereotypes.
In Asia, the temptation for producers to play foul may be even greater than in Europe or America, because economic power tends to be concentrated in fewer hands.
Correspondents say that the reluctance of the allies to offer resources for Afghanistan has dogged the credibility of Nato's first mission outside Europe or America in its 55-year history.
Their standard short, specialised degrees suit only the well prepared: in three years there is no time for a ruthless weeding-out after one year, as is common elsewhere in Europe, or for a broad education before choosing a major subject, as in America.
Spaniards are far from proud of their military record over the past century and have no yearning for the more distant days when the conquistadores took South America or when swathes of Europe were under Spanish control.
On a dusty patch of ground now stands rack upon rack of western clothes, made perhaps in China or other parts of Asia but already worn in Europe or America and then given away to charities to be sold, for very little, all over Africa, even in places like Lundazi.
Perhaps the biggest problem for Japan is that its starting-point was so much worse than America's or Europe's, says Alexander Kinmont of Morgan Stanley.
The website stadiumguide.com lists 78 new soccer venues across Western Europe that either opened recently or planned for the near future, along with a handful of others in Eastern Europe and South America.
The portable game console will launch in North America and Europe in March 2011, but Iwata did not give the specific dates or pricing for those regions.
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Those now living prosperously in Europe, America or the Gulf states have little interest in returning to fight both Israel and Yasser Arafat for this little patch of dry land.
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