He said then that Chinese officials had refused to discuss export limits.

Only cars actually shipped from Japan fall within the voluntary export limits.

Each country would only be allowed one such export limit on any industry, and Detroit car makers worry that they might not get the exemption.

The export limits were reimposed last October.

Russia's No. 3 producer, Surgutneftegaz, is already bumping its head on government-imposed export limits.

Secretary of Defense William Perry assigned a team of officials (including myself) to put together a new proposal for computer export limits.

In June, restrictions were lifted dramatically after the Cocom countries met in Paris and dropped most technology export limits.

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Export Limits Pose Problem Mr. Brown said the limited supply of cars has dictated Daihatsu's marketing strategy.

Technology Export Limits Eased The White House loosened the restrictions on exporting high-performance computers and microprocessors.

He said the position of the coffee organization's 74 member states had not changed since the agreement on export limits was suspended in July amid disagreement between producing and consuming nations.

Imports are subject to regional export limits, which are monitored by both Commerce and Secretaria de Economia through export license and import license systems.

Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, says Japan's export limits should take into account the "transplants" - factories that assemble Japanese cars in the United States.

India has introduced export bans, Vietnam and Thailand rice export limits, Indonesia export taxes on palm oil, and Kazakhstan a ban on wheat exports.

That would far surpass the Agriculture Department's current estimate of 7 million bales and comes dangerously close to the current predicted export limit of 7.5 million bales, he said.

The year for which the Japanese export limits are figured ends in March, so by delaying the Charade's introduction until December it can sell its entire 1987 allocation in four months - or at three times the annualized rate.

The export limit for fiscal 1990, which begins April 1, is the same as in the current fiscal year, although actual exports are expected to total only 2 million because of increased production in the United States by Japanese automakers.

In a review that is likely to lead to substantial liberalization in the control of computer exports, the Commerce Department said yesterday that it had found machines widely available internationally that are five times as powerful as the current international export limits.

In coffee futures, meanwhile, prices plunged on the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange after Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, called for a one-year extension of an international accord that contained no coffee export limits.

Willie Fung, the chairman of Top Form, the world's largest bra manufacturer, said on Sunday that export limits on his company's factories in China would compel him to export more from Top Form factories in the Philippines.

The Fine Arts Society denies this, but by lowering the price to £35,000, just under the export limit, and selling to a foreign buyer, they also avoided the 17% VAT (sales tax) on their profit which they would have paid had they sold to a British institution.