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8 unusual facts about EXPORT


EXPORT

The payload originally consisted of two independent modules, EXPOSE and Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt).

Export

We already can see how important E-commerce is for marketing growth among exporters companies in emerging economies, in order to overcome capital and infrastructure barriers.

EXPORT

The second instrument, Sky Polarization Observatory, was an Italian astrophysical instrument to measure celestial polarisation range of 20–90 GHz.

EXPOSE was placed in 2008 on an external platform on the Columbus – External Payload Facility where it remained for 1.5 years.

Export

The advent of small trades over the internet such as through Amazon and eBay have largely bypassed the involvement of Customs in many countries because of the low individual values of these trades.

Export-Import Bank of Korea

A spokesman representing the bank told reporters that K-pop, Korean dramas, as well as traditional Korean cuisine have huge growth potential, and that exporters of such cultural content deserve more investment and financial support.

Ezequiel Padilla Peñaloza

He negotioated a favorable economic treaty, fixed the peso to the United States dollar, and secured loans for industrial development from the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Walter C. Righter

Bishop Righter and his wife Nancy retired to Allstead, New Hampshire before moving to Export, Pennsylvania.


2008 in Argentina

12 March: The agricultural sector starts a 20-day lock-out in protest at the increase in export taxes on soybeans and sunflower.

Adré

Chadian president Idriss Déby accuses Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of trying to "destabilize our country, to drive our people into misery, to create disorder and export the war from Darfur to Chad."

Afghanistan Oil Pipeline

Through the Omsk (Russia) – Pavlodar (Kasakhstan) – ShymkentTürkmenabat pipeline, it would provide a possible alternative export route for regional oil production from the Caspian Sea.

Alnmouth

Located at the mouth of the River Aln, the village has been an important trading port in Northumberland's past, mainly involved in the export of grain, and smuggling.

American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines

Also in 1964, Isbrandtsen, who became a majority stake holder in Ward Industries in 1960, restructured it and formed American Export Industries, Inc.

Ankara Vilayet

Weaving was a popular industry in the vilayet but declined after the introduction of the railroad, where locals would export wool and mohair instead of weaving it.

Annu Tandon

Ltd, a firm launched by Mukesh Ambani, and also ran Salonica Vasans, a textile export firm.

Automotive Financial Group

Botnar had successfully built up a successful business since 1970, importing and marketing Datsun/Nissan cars within Britain - eventually attaining a 6% overall market share by 1980, to the point where the United Kingdom was the only export market where Nissan outsold its arch-rival Toyota.

Betws-y-Coed

The Conwy Valley Line was constructed by the London and North Western Railway with the primary aim of transporting dressed slate from the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries to a specially built quay at Deganwy for export by sea.

Bristol RE

From 1976 the RE remained in production only for the Northern Irish state-owned bus companies Ulsterbus and Citybus, and for export to Christchurch Transport Board, New Zealand.

British Rail railbuses

Following export around 1981 it was used on an experimental extension of MBTA (Boston) commuter service to Concord, New Hampshire.

Canton Railroad

The Canton Railroad dispute with Maryland involving whether the state franchise tax on railroad activities in the port of Baltimore violated the Import-Export or Commerce Clauses of the Constitution led to the Supreme Court case Canton Railroad Company v. Rogan, 340 U.S. 511 (1951).

Catholicon Anglicum

However on a recommendation made by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), administered by Arts Council England, an export ban has been placed on the book by culture minister Ed Vaizey.

Conakry

Conakry became the capital of French Guinea in 1904 and prospered as an export port, particularly after a (now closed) railway to Kankan opened the large scale export of groundnut from the interior.

Curtiss F11C Goshawk

Though not interested in politics, Ernst Udet joined the Nazi party in 1933 when Hermann Göring promised to buy him two new Curtiss Export Hawk II (D-3165 and D-IRIK).

Dellwood, Oregon

Dellwood is the site of a Weyerhaeuser log yard and was once a log dump for sending rafts of logs downriver to Coos Bay for export.

Dodge Spirit

It was assembled at Newark Assembly in Newark, Delaware as well as Toluca Car Assembly in Toluca, Mexico, and shared its basic design with the 1990 to 1994 Chrysler LeBaron sedan, the 1989 to 1995 Plymouth Acclaim, and the export-only 1989 to 1995 Chrysler Saratoga.

Dragunov sniper rifle

In 1962, the state armory in Izhevsk developed the Medved (Bear) rifle, initially chambered first in the 9x53mm cartridge and later in the 7.62x51mm NATO round for export.

Forécariah

Forecariah is a possible station on a heavy duty railway between Kalia mine and Matakong port for the export of iron ore.

Gambia Colony and Protectorate

Attempts were made to increase production of other goods for export: the Gambian Poultry Scheme pioneered by the Colonial Development Corporation aimed to produce twenty million eggs and one million lb of dressed poultry a year.

GAZ-M20 Pobeda

The car was a successful export for the USSR, and the design was licensed to the Polish FSO factory in Warsaw, where it was built as the FSO Warszawa beginning in 1951.

GOST 7396

GOST 7396 (ГОСТ 7396 in Cyrillic) is a series of Soviet and later Russian standards that specify basic dimensions and safety requirements for power plugs and sockets used in Russia and other former Soviet Republics, as well as for export to markets that use American or British plugs.

Hassi R'Mel

The National Centre For Dispatching Gas is also starting point for the Maghreb-Europe, Trans-Mediterranean, Medgaz and Galsi gas export pipelines supplying Southern Europe.

Herman Blaschke

He played alongside the clubs' Executive Chairman Kaizer Motaung and rose to be Namibia's greatest export.

Howard C. Petersen

Petersen was chairman of the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and the Marshall Foundation, and chairman and advisory committee member of Export-Import Bank.

Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll

Following his military service he worked in banking, then spent four years as a sales executive with Rank Xerox Export, regularly travelling behind the Iron Curtain.

IBM 3624

The PIN functions, with an early commercial encryption using the DES algorithm, were implemented in two modules - BQKPERS and BQKCIPH - and their export controlled under the US export munitions rules.

Japanese sword

The export of nihontō reached its height during the Muromachi period when at least 200,000 nihontō were shipped to Ming Dynasty China in official trade in an attempt to soak up the production of Japanese weapons and make it harder for pirates in the area to arm.

JCPA

The Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa Act, a piece of Canadian patent legislation allowing the manufacture and export of medicines to countries without local manufacturing capacity

Kaukapakapa

The kauri timber industry was responsible for developing the area, with logs floated down the Kaukapakapa River to the Kaipara Harbour, where they were loaded onto ships for export.

Kemaman Port

The East wharf was constructed to handle the import/export materials of the Perwaja Steel works, and is designed to import iron ores, and scrap.

Klimov VK-1

However in 1946, before the Cold War had really begun, the new British Labour government under the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, keen to improve diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, authorised Rolls-Royce to export 40 Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal flow turbojet engines.

Lubin Manufacturing Company

He exhibited his new equipment at the 1899 National Export Exposition in Philadelphia and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Martín Redrado

Kirchner appointed Redrado President of the Central Bank of Argentina on September 24, 2004, and the new central banker implemented the administration's policy of keeping a relatively undervalued Argentine peso to help bolster export competitiveness, while foreign exchange reserves soared to nearly US$50 billion.

Meissen porcelain

The Chinese had mastered the production of porcelain long before the west became aware of it, and by the seventeenth century oriental porcelain had become a valuable export commodity in the China trade.

Messenger RNA

Upon export from the nucleus the mRNA associates with ZBP1 and the 40S subunit.

PetroDar

The pipeline connects the oil fields of the Melut Basin with the refinery and export terminal located at Port Sudan on the Red Sea.

Plant manufactured pharmaceuticals

Increasing the need for agricultural societies in developing countries will help certain countries to export and make trade alliance with other countries and with the development of the therapies that can control diseases like Cholera and HIV/AIDS.

Poroti

There are also a number of flower growing operations growing Sandersonia, calla lilies, orchids and hydrangeas for export markets all over the world.

Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau

Tensions began to escalate when Ottoman Empire closed the Dardanelles to all shipping on 27 September, blocking Russia's exit from the Black Sea—the Black Sea route accounted for over 90% of Russia's import and export traffic.

Rogue Creamery

Rogue Creamery was the first U.S. cheese maker to export raw-milk cheese to the European Union.

Royal Division of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway

To export coal towards Belgium, Netherlands and shipping ports it built a connecting line from Mülheim-Styrum to the river port at Ruhrort, which was completed in 1867.

Seabird Seeker

The Seabird Seeker has had some export success, and is operated by the new (post 2003 invasion) Iraqi Air Force.

Shea nut and butter production in Burkina Faso

The export earnings were boosted due to shea butter’s use in cosmetics (for lotions, creams, soaps and other products) by well-known firms such as L'Oréal, The Body Shop and L'Occitane en Provence.

Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm

In April 2008, cable company Nexans was awarded the €24m export cable supply contract by Statoil.

SolveSpace

Preparing CAM data – Export 2D vector art for a waterjet machine or laser cutter; or generate STEP or STL, for import into third-party CAM software

Tiradentes

Living in a state rich in gold, Tiradentes used the knowledge he acquired about minerals to enter the public service (he achieved the ranks of alferes, low in the hierarchy of the epoch), and he was sent to missions in cities along the road between Vila Rica (the capital of Minas Gerais) and Rio de Janeiro; this road was the "open vein" used to export most of the gold to Portugal.

Transnistrian border customs issues

From February 1996 to 2001, there was an agreement between Moldovan and Transnistrian authorities, according to which PMR (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) export and import goods were not subject to Moldovan taxes, PMR was granted the right to use the customs seal of the Republic of Moldova on its goods, and PMR agreed to establish joint customs centers with Moldova on the border with Ukraine.

TXK

The development of electronic systems however took longer than anticipated and the British equipment manufacturers, particularly Automatic Telephone & Electric (ATE), which later became part of the Plessey group feared that continuing to focus the bulk of their production on Strowger equipment would harm their export sales as Crossbar had already become popular throughout the world.

Wath marshalling yard

Another major destination for the coal traffic was the steam trawler bunkering sidings at New Clee, near Grimsby, and after 1912 export coal was sent via the new dock facilities at Immingham.


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