That is partly the healthy consequence of liberal economic reforms in the 1980s and 1990s: the previous policies of state-led import-substitution tended to concentrate economic activity close to the centres of political power.
Instead of developing those fields in the northern state of Coahuila, Pemex will instead focus on oil output, and the Mexican state power utility will import more gas.
The State Department kept the import restrictions going anyway.
Over the past few years, state-owned financial institutions, mainly the Export-Import Bank of China and the China Development Bank, have extended tens of billions of dollars to Brazil, Russia and Kazakhstan, among other countries.
Abandoned by the former Harrah's Entertainment Inc. in 2008, Baha Mar last year found a new financial backer in the Export-Import Bank of China and a builder in China State Construction Engineering Corp.
Large, state-controlled lenders China Development Bank Corp. and Export-Import Bank of China are planning to pitch dim-sum bonds in London to investors, said people familiar with the matter.
Grain and commodities export terminal 5 was closed as well as import terminal 6, a hub for Asian imports in the state as well as U.S. exports.
It appeared that Iranian pistachios would finally enter the U.S. last March when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright lifted 13-year sanctions on them, together with import bans on Persian carpets and caviar.
In that case, state prosecutors accused him of fraudulently persuading investors to pump money into a clothing import business that didn't actually exist.
In the public sector, Bill Casey served as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
The clean-energy export initiative is also being sponsored by the Departments of Commerce, State, and Agriculture and a clutch of federal agencies like the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
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In July lawyers for dealers, auction houses and museums tried to persuade the State Department's cultural property advisory committee not to recommend renewing the emergency import restrictions on Byzantine ethnological material from Cyprus for another three years.
California has also managed to import some of the grape's Old World confusion factor, since the state's wineries tend to label bottles "Pinot Grigio" or "Pinot Gris" based on whim rather than wine style.
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