Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Why Some Firms Won't Export Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 00:09:57 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: henry@garp.mit.edu Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 404, message 9 of 10 Anyone who sells techno-toys wants to be careful about not being seen as an "export" firm because then they need to organize export licenses. An aquaintance (in Australia) had to get a friend of his to run down to the store to buy a Sony ICF-SW1S (a pocket shortwave radio) and have his friend ship it because stores here wouldn't ship to Australia. (This is, of course, an educated guess on my part ... ) Stupid, eh? # Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # / / [Moderator's Note: Very stupid. Not your remark! I mean the policy which calls for an 'export license' for one or two little things. This would be understandable -- even if I did not agree with it -- if a manufacturer was shipping large quantities of things overseas. But a single radio or telephone? As the late Jack Benny would say, 'Really, Mary...' PT]