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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
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Subject: Why Some Firms Won't Export
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Date: 25 Sep 89 00:09:57 GMT
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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]