Western export controls effected under the voluntary arrangement known as COCOM have been highly effective in safeguarding this qualitative edge.
This behavior makes it all the more incredible that the United States is allowing the Germans to dictate the pace and magnitude of the dismantling of Western export controls now underway.
Foreign firms also want to export power to Western Europe, provided they can secure long-term contracts.
We now export more to the Western Hemisphere than to any other region in the world.
The project would have processed gas from the Browse Basin, in Western Australia, into LNG for export to Asian utilities.
Many of the petroleum products refined at Mazeikiai are shipped out to Western Europe through the Klaipeda oil export terminal, a port sixty miles away.
As it is, China is moving from an export driven economy to a more Western one that is geared to its local consumers.
FORBES: By The Time Obama Leaves Office, U.S. No Longer No. 1
Many allied governments are inclined to exploit the widely shared desire to aid the process of reform in Poland and Hungary to dismantle multilateral export control arrangements under which such Western governments and their businesses have chafed for years.
For more than 50 years North America was the biggest export market for the cloth woven on the Western Isles.
The story starts back in January 1998, when Royal Ordinance, now part of BAe Systems, applied for an export licence to refurbish the 30 Moroccan guns in Western Sahara and also, according to a confidential document we have seen, supply six new guns.
For more than 50 years North America was the biggest export market for the cloth, which is woven on the Western Isles.
For example, some Western nations do not have the legal ability to impose restrictions on the export of missile technologies -- unless such technologies are controlled multilaterally by COCOM.
If, for example, they have to build export facilities, the lengths of pipelines in a country the size of western Europe are daunting.
The economy is trying to turn itself inside out, going from an export-driven economy to a consumer-driven one like it is in Western societies.
FORBES: China's Investment Outlook Changing, But Still Tops U.S. As Money Destination
China's 100 million Web surfers are growing ever more dependent on links to Western servers in order to keep up to date on scientific topics and to keep their export-minded economy humming.
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.
FORBES: Apache Plans $4B In Asset Sales - Will It Be Enough To Get Investors Excited?
It also urges Congress to hold urgent hearings into German export practices and to examine with care the real risks they pose to American and Western security interests -- and the additional costs imposed on U.S. defense expenditures.
Until recently, the country - which is a minor oil producer - was unable to export oil from its existing fields in the north and east of the country because of a Western embargo.
应用推荐