We are working for international agreement to extend this to cover other countries which provide export credits for poor countries as well.

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In western Canada Apache is also working with Chevron on developing the Kitimat LNG project to provide an export route for 50 billion cubic feet of gas reserves in that region.

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Kazakhstan's president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, told Elizabeth Jones, America's envoy to the Caspian, last week that the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline would provide an export route for early oil from Kashagan, where production is due to start in 2005.

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And so, referendum optimists have been telling me since springtime, the bidding wars for both the oil and the export pathways would provide the new state with all the economic autonomy and prosperity it needed.

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One plan involves lobbying the central government to deregulate airfares so that the local tourist industry can take off. (Just see what Hawaii has done since American air fares were deregulated.) Another proposal is to provide tax breaks for manufacturers who import components and then re-export the finished goods.

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It set up Asia's first export-processing area in 1965 at Kandla, in Gujarat, to provide goods for the then Soviet Union.

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The government's new investment and export-promotion department aims to lure enough foreign companies to the country to provide jobs for most of Oman's school-leavers by the time the oil runs out in 15 years' time.

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