The expected increase in manufacturing capacity would come largely from increased plastics capacity and an expansion in refining extra-light oil for export.

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U.S. economic data due for release Friday is light and includes import and export price indexes.

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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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